Michael Hancher

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Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law. Macaulay and English in India (Routledge, 2026). https://z.umn.edu/M-H.

Brown oak leaves, blue scilla blossoms still close to the ground.

Silver and gold glass Christmas-tree ornaments shaped like whole walnuts.

Headline in the Busiess section of the Minnesota Tribune, December 5, 2024: "Constraints signal a loo,ming fight for power"

First page of table of contents of Dictionaries 45.2 (2024), special issue, Talking Back to the Dictionary.