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Funk and Wagnalls is a publisher based in New York City. Isaac Kaufmann Funk founded the business in 1876 as I.K. Funk & Company. The firm's first publication was the Metropolitan Pulpit. In 1877, Adam Willis Wagnalls, one of Funk's classmates at Wittenberg College, joined the firm as a partner. The two changed the name of the firm to Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1890. Image File history File links Derived from public domain images featured at: http://commons. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839-1912) was an American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Adam Willis Wagnalls (1843 - 1924) was a U.S. publisher. ... Myers Hall - Wittenberg University Wittenberg University is a private, four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Springfield, Ohio. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ...

Prior to 1890, F. & W. published only religious-oriented works. The publication of The Literary Digest in 1890 marked a change for the firm to a publisher of general reference dictionaries and encyclopedias. The firm followed in 1894 with its most memorable publication, The Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1912 saw the publication of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia. The Literary Digest was an influential general-interest magazine in the early 20th century United States. ... A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or (traditionally) encyclopædia,[1] is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

In 1953, the firm began to sell its reference publications through a supermarket continuity marketing campaign, encouraging consumers to include the latest volume of the encyclopedia on their shopping lists. By 1971, the company, known as Funk & Wagnalls, Inc. had been bought by Reader's Digest Association in 1965 and then again by the firm Dun & Bradstreet. In subsequent years, the publication rights to the company's reference works (aside from the encyclopedia) were acquired by other firms. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Dun & Bradstreet Corp (NYSE: DNB), headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA, is among the leading providers of business information on business. ...

The publication rights to the encyclopedia were spun off by Dun & Bradstreet in 1983, and were bought up once more in 1990 by K-III Holdings Inc. In 1998, as part of the Information division of Primedia Inc. (renamed K-III Holdings), Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia became the website funkandwagnalls.com. This short-lived venture was shut down in 2001. The encyclopedia exists today only as Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, an electronic reference provided to educational institutions by the World Almanac Education Group. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Some content from the encyclopedia became a part of Microsoft's Encarta digital encyclopedia. The Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published and updated frequently by Microsoft Corporation. ...

Pop culture trivia

• One of the catch phrases on the late '60s American television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was: "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls".

• Also a catch phrase on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as part of the recurring "Carnac the Magnificent" routine done by Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson, as in "These answers have been hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls' porch since noon today!"

• A catch phrase of Eric Cartman on the Comedy Central show "South Park" is "What the Funk & Wagnalls are you talkin' about?" is a reference to Funk and Wagnalls, used to humorously avoid the use of the work fuck so as to pass muster with Standards & Practices. Episode Script in Which this Phrase is Used

• Some hold that bandmember Jerry Garcia used a Funk & Wagnalls dictionary to randomly pick the words for the bandname Grateful Dead," but in reality nobody really remembers what kind of dictionary it was.

• C.J. Cregg used the line in Season 1 of The West Wing.

• Marty Sheargold and Fifi Box from the Australian radio show, The Shebang, often use the phrase "is it in the Funk & Wagnalls?" to validate a point. On the 24th Feb 2006, they read excerpts of this Wikipedia article on their radio show, but stated that they do not hold a lifelong ambition to get their names to appear in a Funk & Wagnalls listing, contrary to a previous version of this article.

• The phrase was also used in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series): The Complete Epic Series: Disc 1". Episode title "Planet of the Slave Girls (Part 1)". The BBC had several queries in the 1990's, when the show was repeated, asking if Buck had sworn. Funk and Wagnall's was not commonly known in the UK.

Major Duke Danton: "Recon 1, I appreciate your concern, but I'd appreciate it all the more if next time you'd refrain from interfering in a Directorate training mission." A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Rowan & Martins Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 through May 14, 1973 over the NBC network. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was the full name of NBCs The Tonight Show during the years that Johnny Carson hosted from 1962 to 1992. ... Carson as Carnac the Magnificent Carnac the Magnificent was a role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and later continued on Late Show with David Letterman, occasionally by Paul Shaffer. ... Ed McMahon During One of Johnny Carsons Monologues on the Tonight Show Ed McMahon (born Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. ... For other people named John Carson, see John Carson (disambiguation). ... Comedy Central is a cable television channel in the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... For other senses of this word, see fuck (disambiguation). ... Standards and Practices is the name traditionally given to the department at a television network which is responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of the program that network airs -- in the vernacular, the censors. Categories: Stub ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. ... The Grateful Dead were an American psychedelia-influenced rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. ... The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. ... This article is written from a fans point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. ... Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is the title of an American motion picture produced by Universal Studios and released in 1979, and is also the title of a television series based upon the film that was aired by NBC for two seasons between 1979 and 1981. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...

Captain Buck Rogers: "What? If you call that interfering there's something wrong with your Funk & Wagnalls."

Major Duke Danton: "I don't know what you mean by that, but how'd you like to repeat that in the flight hangar?"

Captain Buck Rogers: "I'd love to."

External links

• FunkandWagnalls.com - archive.org version