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This long-awaited, definitive and fascinating "Dictionary of American Regional English" ["DARE"]...is all we had hoped for and more. It includes the regional and folk language, past and present, of the old and the young, men and women, white and black, the rural and the urban, from all walks of life...Although "DARE" will be one of the most scholarly, comprehensive and detailed dictionaries ever completed...it will also be one of the easiest and most enjoyable to use or browse in...This is an exciting, lasting work of useful scholarship accomplished with excellence, a work that scholars and laypeople alike will study, use and enjoy for generations. -- Stuart B. Flexner "New York Times Book Review"
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A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities.
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A scholarly project that has required many years of work, involving hundreds of people and considerable expense, cannot be fully understood without taking account of its inception, its aims, its progress. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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A scholarly project that has required many years of work, involving hundreds of people and considerable expense, cannot be fully understood without taking account of its inception, its aims, its progress. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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