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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 StatesDepending on where you live your conversation may include such beguiling terms as paddybass North Carolina pinkwink Cape Cod or scallyhoot West if youre invited to a potluck dinner in Indiana youre likely to call it a pitchin while in northern Illinois its a scramble if your youngsters play hopscotch they may call it potsy in Manhattan but sky blue in ChicagoLike the popular first three volumes of DARE the fourth is a treasuretrove of linguistic gems a book that invites exclamation delight and wonder More than six hundred maps pinpoint where you might live if your favorite card games are sheepshead and skat if you eat pan dulce rather than pain perdu if you drive down a red dog road or make a purchase at a racket store or if you look out your window and see a parka squirrel or a quill pigThe language of our everyday lives is captured in DARE along with expressions our grandparents used but our children will never know Based on thousands of interviews across the country the Dictionary of American Regional English presents our language in its infinite variety Word lovers will delight in the wit and wisdom found in the quotations that illustrate each entry and will prize the richness and diversity of our spoken and written culture
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Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the rich endlessly entertaining everchanging world of American speech Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes lefse what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by kimmelweck or a Hawaiian baker puts into a malassada Find out what kids on the streets of New York are doing when they play Johnnyonthepony or offthepoint what Southerners do when they use their tom walkers what the folks in Oklahoma and Texas celebrate on Juneteenth and those in some parts of Wisconsin at a kermisLike its enormously popular predecessors this volume captures the language of our lives from east to west north to south urban to rural childhood to old age Here are the terms that distinguish us one from the other and knit us together in one vast colorful tapestry of imperfect perfectly enchanting speech More than five hundred maps show where you might be if you looked in a garden and saw moccasin flowers indian cigars or lady peas if you encountered a bullfrog and cried jugarum or came upon a hover fly and exclaimed newsbee And here at long last is an explanation of what the madstone and the money cat portendBuilt upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research the Dictionary of American Regional English preserves a language that lives and dies as we breathe It will amuse and inform delight and instruct and keep alive the speech that we have made our own and that has made us who we are
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This companion volume to the Dictionary of American Regional English vastly enhances readers use of the five volumes of DARE text Those who want to investigate the regional synonyms for a rustic or a submarine sandwich or that strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street can search through the five volumes and compare the distributional maps Or with this volume they can open to a page with all those maps displayed side by side Not only is it an extraordinary teaching tool it is also a browsers delightThe user who wants to know what words characterize a given state or region is also in luck The Index to the five volumes not only answers that question but also satisfies the readers curiosity about words that have come into English from other languages and words that vary with the speakers age sex race education and community typeAnd those who simply love to explore the variety and ingenuity of American expression will be seduced by the lists of answers to the DARE fieldwork questions Dust balls under the bed Americans have at least 176 names for them Names for a heavy rainstorm There are more than 200 including the fanciful frogstrangler goosedrownder lightwoodknot floater and trashmover More than 400 questions and all of their answers are included in this treasure trove of American linguistic creativity
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This companion volume to the Dictionary of American Regional English vastly enhances readers use of the five volumes of DARE text Those who want to investigate the regional synonyms for a rustic or a submarine sandwich or that strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street can search through the five volumes and compare the distributional maps Or with this volume they can open to a page with all those maps displayed side by side Not only is it an extraordinary teaching tool it is also a browsers delightThe user who wants to know what words characterize a given state or region is also in luck The Index to the five volumes not only answers that question but also satisfies the readers curiosity about words that have come into English from other languages and words that vary with the speakers age sex race education and community typeAnd those who simply love to explore the variety and ingenuity of American expression will be seduced by the lists of answers to the DARE fieldwork questions Dust balls under the bed Americans have at least 176 names for them Names for a heavy rainstorm There are more than 200 including the fanciful frogstrangler goosedrownder lightwoodknot floater and trashmover More than 400 questions and all of their answers are included in this treasure trove of American linguistic creativity
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Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the rich endlessly entertaining everchanging world of American speech Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes lefse what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by kimmelweck or a Hawaiian baker puts into a malassada Find out what kids on the streets of New York are doing when they play Johnnyonthepony or offthepoint what Southerners do when they use their tom walkers what the folks in Oklahoma and Texas celebrate on Juneteenth and those in some parts of Wisconsin at a kermisLike its enormously popular predecessors this volume captures the language of our lives from east to west north to south urban to rural childhood to old age Here are the terms that distinguish us one from the other and knit us together in one vast colorful tapestry of imperfect perfectly enchanting speech More than five hundred maps show where you might be if you looked in a garden and saw moccasin flowers indian cigars or lady peas if you encountered a bullfrog and cried jugarum or came upon a hover fly and exclaimed newsbee And here at long last is an explanation of what the madstone and the money cat portendBuilt upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research the Dictionary of American Regional English preserves a language that lives and dies as we breathe It will amuse and inform delight and instruct and keep alive the speech that we have made our own and that has made us who we are
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