''Verbatim: The Language Quarterly'' was a

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...

aimed at reporting language and

linguistic Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

issues for non-specialist readers. It was established in 1974. These matters are announced in the magazine's advertised slogan: "Language and linguistics for the layperson since 1974".Verbatim
— official website. The founding editor was

Laurence Urdang Laurence Urdang (March 21, 1927 – August 21, 2008) was a lexicographer, editor and author noted for first computerising the unabridged ''Random House Dictionary of the English Language'', published in 1966. He was also the founding editor ...

and the final editor was

Erin McKean Erin McKean (born 1971) is an American lexicographer. Early life and education McKean was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA/MA in Linguistics. As an undergraduate, she worked in a junior ...

. ''Verbatim'' was administered from

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, with a UK office in

Chearsley Chearsley is a village and civil parish within the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated about seven miles south west of Aylesbury, and about four miles north of Thame, in Oxfordshire. Histo ...

Aylesbury Vale The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a geographical region in Buckinghamshire, England, which is bounded by the Borough of Milton Keynes and South Northamptonshire to the north, Central Bedfordshire and the Borough of Dacorum ( Hertfor ...

. Until the end of the 1980s, it was distributed in the United States and Canada by the independent publisher

Stein & Day Stein and Day, Inc. was an American publishing company founded by Sol Stein and his wife Patricia Day in 1962. Stein was both the publisher and the editor-in-chief. The firm was based in New York City, and was in business for 27 years, until clos ...

Notes and references

Bibliography

*
Stein & Day Publishing Files for Bankruptcy
. ''

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''. June 27, 1987. *
Stein & Day To Shut Down
. ''

''. July 29, 1988.

External links

Verbatim
— official website (with some back issues up to 2004)

— list of articles (author and title) by volume and number {{US-lit-mag-stub Literary magazines published in the United States Quarterly magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1974 Magazines published in Chicago