With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam’s housecat to Zydeco. Like the first four volumes, t
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
A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities