A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities
Jasper the dog and Jess the cat are enemies who growl and hiss at each other every day as Jasper chases Jess out of the garden, but the day Jess gets stuck on the roof, Jasper is the only one who can
Every page in this new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English makes it wonderfully clear that regional expressions still flourish throughout the United States.Depending on where you liv
Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the rich, endlessly entertaining, ever-changing world of American speech. Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes lefse,
Volume I of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), published to wide acclaim in 1985, captured the wondrous variety and creativeness of American folk words and expressions and tickled th
