Barbara Ann Kipfer is a linguist

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 and lexicographer. She has written more than 45 books, including 14,000 Things to be Happy About

14,000 Things to be Happy About

14,000 things to be happy about is a book by Barbara Ann Kipfer. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. It was published in 1990 by Workman Publishing....

(Workman), which has more than a million copies in print and has given rise to many Page-a-Day calendars. She was the editor of the sixth edition of Roget's International Thesaurus. She lives in Ivoryton, Connecticut

Ivoryton, Connecticut

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She holds a PhD

PHD

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 and MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

, a PhD in Archaeology from Greenwich University

Greenwich University

Greenwich University is a controversial distance learning institution, originally founded in 1972 in Missouri , trading from 1990 to 2003 in Hawaii--1998 to 2003 under separate ownership--and from 1998 to 2002 in Norfolk Island...

, an MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 and PhD

PHD

PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 in Buddhist Studies also from Akamai University, and a BS

BS

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 in physical education from Valparaiso University

Valparaiso University

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. She is lexicographer for Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might...

. Kipfer has worked for such companies as Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com

Reference.com

Reference.com is an online encyclopedia, thesaurus, and dictionary. The site also provides machine translation and web search.Reference.com was launched by InReference, Inc in February, 1997. The site was later acquired by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. In 2005, Lexico announced that Reference.com...

, Answers.com

Answers.com

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, Ask Jeeves, idealab

Idealab

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, Mindmaker, General Electric Research, IBM Research

IBM Research

IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....

, Wang

Wang

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, Bellcore (Telcordia), Cymfony, Textwise, and Knowledge Adventure

Knowledge Adventure

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Works

Workman Publishing:

• 14,000 Things to be Happy About
• Instant Karma
• 8,789 Words of Wisdom
• The Wish List
• 1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About
• Self-Meditation
• The Order of Things

Random House:

• 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone
• Life of Language
• Trivia Lovers’ Book of Lists

HarperCollins

• Roget's International Thesaurus
• Dictionary of American Slang

Ulysses Press:

• 201 Little Buddhist Reminders
• 1325 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy

Kluwer Plenum:

• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology

Blackwell:

• Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion
• Dictionary of Artifacts

Delacorte:

• Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form

External links

• Dictionarysmith - Kipfer's personal website
• Things to be Happy About