Unless a benefactor appears, the Dictionary of American Regional English, which American Dialect Society executive secretary Allan Metcalf recently called the “greatest American lexicographical ...

The history of DARE goes back to 1889, at the founding of the American Dialect Society, one of the major goals of which was to produce a dictionary of American dialects.

After 50 years of fieldwork and scholarship, the “Dictionary of American Regional English” has issued its fifth volume.

The Dictionary of American Regional English is a six-volume collection of phrases and expressions used across the United States, gathered from 1,000 communities during a 1965 to 1970 survey.

The Philosophy Behind the First American Dictionary In 1789, Noah Webster called on the newly independent United States to claim its own national version of the English language. By Peter Martin ...

The Dictionary of American Regional English showcases the diverse dialects of different areas of the United States. From whoopensocker to juglum, these wacky words record the history of American ...

For the past 48 years, the Dictionary of American Regional English has been building a catalog Americans' language quirks, a record based on a wide-reaching series of surveys conducted back in the ...

The beauty of an Oxford Dictionary focused on AAVE is that it will expand the scholarship on this important dialect of American English — it promises to be the most in-depth study of Black ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on ...

With the dictionary finished, Hall has replaced Cassidy’s “On to Z!” with a new mantra for the team. “On Beyond Zebra!” she said, with a nod to the Dr. Seuss book by that title.

Webster is a moldy fig. For all its scholarship, the supposedly unabridged dictionary (600,000 entries) gives hardly a hint that the American language is in the grip of a permanent revolution.