For the football player of the same name see Paul Dickson (football player)

Paul Dickson (football player)

Paul Serafin Dickson was a former defensive tackle and coach in the National Football League. Over his 12 year career, Dickson played for the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, and St...

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Paul Dickson (born in Yonkers, New York

Yonkers, New York

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) is a freelance writer of more than 50 non-fiction books, mostly on American English

American English

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 language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers

Washington Independent Writers

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 and a member of the National Press Club. Dickson coined the term "word word

Word word

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For his published work on Baseball

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, the Washington Post has described Dickson as "baseball's answer to Noah Webster or, at the very least, William Safire."

Dickson graduated from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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 in 1961.