Paikeday and Asst. Maranda Bossert

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY has been a full-time lexicographer of American and Canadian English dictionaries since 1964.

His important works include The Winston Dictionaries of Canadian English (Intermediate edition, 1969; Compact edition, 1970; Elementary edition, 1975), The New York Times Everyday Dictionary, 1982 (CD-ROM edition, Toronto, 1990), The Penguin Canadian Dictionary, 1990, and currently, The User's^® Webster Dictionary, 2000.

Paikeday is also the author ofThe Native Speaker Is Dead! (Toronto & New York, 1985; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1990), a discussion with Noam Chomsky and 40 other linguists, philosophers, psychologists, and lexicographers.

He has written numerous articles on lexicography and has been a regular columnist on new words and meanings for the quarterly English Today, Cambridge, England.

Paikeday pioneered the use of microcomputers for collecting and analyzing lexicographical data. Please see "The Joy of Lex," Creative Computing, Nov. 1983, pp. 240-245.

Lexicography, Inc. was established in 1973, incorporated 1985.

As a trademark expert, Paikeday has witnessed for West Edmonton Mall v. Walt Disney (re "Fantasyland"); Canada Trust v. Toronto Dominion Bank (re "Green" before the companies merged); AT&T v. Bell Canada (re "Calling card"), etc., as in the affidavits below.

User's^® is a registered trademark (TMA 544,618) reserved for exclusive use by owner to refer to "language dictionaries in all forms, including hard-copy and computerized dictionaries."  A full explanation of the distinctiveness of the trademark is available to seriously interested parties.

For full biographical information, please see Directory of American Scholars, 11th edition, Marquis Who's Who in America (2002 to present), Canadian Who's Who (1988 to present), Who's Who in the World (1987 to present, except for a couple of years), Contemporary Authors, vol. 65 (New Revised Series, 1998).