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 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.

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

Feb. 1, 2012 — -- intro: The Dictionary of American Regional English showcases the diverse dialects of different areas of the United States. From whoopensocker to juglum, these wacky words ...

After 54 years, The Dictionary of American Regional English, one of UW's most celebrated projects, is coming to an end. The reason: lack of funding.

The makers of the Dictionary of American Regional English have nearly finished their latest edition. They've traveled the U.S. for decades noting regional dialect. A potluck dinner may be called a ...

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 ...

Many people, often in the name of scholarship, run amok in their thinking. Soon, the American Dialect Society (ADS) — grandfather of the word watchers, which started this craze in 1990 — will ...

One of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s signature humanities projects, the 50-year-old Dictionary of American Regional English, is in financial peril and faces possible closure this year… ...

Now, a new dictionary is picking up on those regional dialects. The Dictionary of American Regional English is done after 50 years. The final volume has 60,000 regional words and phrases.

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used. A new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.