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Dictionary of American Regional English: V: Sl-Z

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Description for Dictionary of American Regional English: V: Sl-Z Hardback. DARE readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam's housecat to Zydeco. Volume V is filled with words that reflect our origins, migrations, ethnicities, and neighborhoods. Whether we are talking about foods, games, clothing, family, animals, or any other aspect of life, our vocabulary reveals much about who we are. Num Pages: 1296 pages, 682 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.

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, the fifth is filled with words that reflect our origins, migrations, ethnicities, and neighborhoods.

Contradicting the popular notion that American English has become homogenized, DARE demonstrates that our language still has distinct and delightful local character. If a person lives in a remote place, would you say he's from the boondocks? Or from the puckerbrush, the tules, or the willywags? Where are you likely to live if you ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
1296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674047358
SKU
V9780674047358
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Joan Houston Hall
Joan Houston Hall is Distinguished Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the DARE staff in 1975, became Associate Editor in 1979, and was named Chief Editor in 2000.

Reviews for Dictionary of American Regional English: V: Sl-Z
A testimonial to the metaphor-making power of the American language at its most vigorous.
Newsweek The Dictionary of American Regional English...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 ... Read more

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