Raymond Weeks

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Raymond Weeks, Ph.D. (1863-1954) was an American philologist and phonetician, born at Tabor, Iowa. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1887 and from Harvard in 1890. In 1897 he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1910 he founded, in collaboration with H. A. Todd and other scholars, the Romanic Review, and he became general editor of the "Oxford French Series."

He wrote numerous articles in Old French Literature, and was assistant editor on the New Standard Dictionary (1913). His works include:

• Origin of the Covenant Vivien (1902)
• La Chevalerie Vivien, facsimile edition (1909)
• The N.E.A. Phonetic Alphabet (1912), with J. W. Bright and C. H. Grandent