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Dictionary of American Regional English: III: I-O

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Description for Dictionary of American Regional English: III: I-O Hardback. Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes "lefse", what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by a "kimmelweck" or a Hawaiian baker puts into a "malassada". This volume concerns the ever-changing world of American speech. Num Pages: 944 pages, 550 maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CBD; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2197.

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, 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 Johnny-on-the-pony or off-the-point, 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 kermis.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
944
Condition
New
Number of Pages
944
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674205192
SKU
V9780674205192
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Hardback
Frederic G. Cassidy was Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 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: III: I-O
To learn how [the word jerk] is used in the American dialect
and where it began
we are now blessed with Volume Three (I to O) of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), coming out this month, edited by America's lexicographical giant, Fred Cassidy, now 89, with Joan Houston Hall.
William Safire
New York Times Magazine
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