Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II: D-H
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 the imagination of lovers of language around the world. Decades in preparation, the DARE corpus reflects the liveliness of English as it is spoken on America's main streets and country roads-the regional metaphors and similes passed along within homes and communities.\ Like its popular predecessor,...
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This series capture the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, this series preserves the language with all its idioms and peculiarities. Daniel F. Phelan - Language and Linguistics DARE is a monumental and impressive work...For those studying American English or linguistics, this is a work that will be consulted again and again.
1. Preface2. Acknowledgments 3. List of Abbreviations4. Dictionary of American Regional English, D-H
\ Language and LinguisticsDARE is a monumental and impressive work...For those studying American English or linguistics, this is a work that will be consulted again and again.\ — Daniel F. Phelan\ \ \ \ \ \ Boston GlobeFor the first time, in the nation of homogenized milk and golfheaded pifflespeakers, we have a definitive picture of who says what where when the TV is off. This picture, literally dotted out on helpful maps, provides a raucous hymn to linguistic diversity. Even more important, it serves as a sort of verbal game preserve where all manner of endangered species-from big hats to blind tigersmay linger a while longer.\ \ \ New York Times<br>The most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States.\ — William Safire\ \ \ \ \ New York TimesThe most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States.\ — William Safire\ \ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book Review\ - Stuart B. Flexner\ The long-awaited, definitive and fascinating Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]...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 life. Although DARE will be one of the most scholarly, comprehensive and detailed dictionaries ever completed...it will also be one of the easiest and most enjoyable to use or browse in...This is an exciting, lasting work of useful scholarship accomplished with excellence, a work that scholars and laypeople alike will study, use and enjoy for generations.\ \ \ \ \ Time\ - Ezra Bowen\ In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction ...Writers, etymologists and other devotees of verbal arcana have never been given a richer browsing ground.\ \ \ \ \ Language and Linguistics\ - Daniel F. Phelan\ DARE is a monumental and impressive work...For those studying American English or linguistics, this is a work that will be consulted again and again.\ \ \ \ \ New York Times\ - William Safire\ The most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States.\ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewThe long-awaited, definitive and fascinating Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]...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 life. Although DARE will be one of the most scholarly, comprehensive and detailed dictionaries ever completed...it will also be one of the easiest and most enjoyable to use or browse in...This is an exciting, lasting work of useful scholarship accomplished with excellence, a work that scholars and laypeople alike will study, use and enjoy for generations.\ — Stuart B. Flexner\ \ \ \ \ \ USA TodayProof that tourism, television and technological change haven't rounded off all the gaudy and gracious edges of the way we talk.\ — L. A. Jolidon\ \ \ \ \ \ Chicago Sun TimesA staggering work of collective scholarship...DARE is not only a reference treasure for the scholar and the general word lover, it's a lode for raiding parties by specialists of all kinds...Most of all, DARE is evidence that American speech will never become stale and fusty, that the great linguistic homogenization of television is a myth.\ — Henry Kisor\ \ \ \ \ \ TimeIn its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction ...Writers, etymologists and other devotees of verbal arcana have never been given a richer browsing ground.\ — Ezra Bowen\ \ \ \ \ \ Library JournalLong in gestation, having been an original goal of the American Dialect Society in 1889, DARE is the result of 25 years of sustained work by its editor, with support from the NEH, universities, institutions, hundreds of volunteers, and 2,777 informants. Entries give definitions; pronunciation; alternative forms; examples; dated reference to sources, which include a unique questionnaire; and then clear indication of where the word is used. Computer-produced maps are a significant feature, as are extensive introductory articles about the maps, pronunciation, language changes, and the DARE project. In an attractive and readable design, on acid-free paper, at a reasonable price, DARE is an important and necessary purchase for academic and public libraries. William Wortman, Miami Univ. Lib., Ohio\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsInitiated under the leadership of Frederic G. Cassidy, DARE represents an attempt to document the living language of the entire country. Volume I, published to acclaim in 1985, captured the variety and creativeness of American folk words and expressions. Like its predecessor, Volume II is a treasury of vernacular Americanisms--some 11,000 in this volume alone. Computer-generated maps accompanying many of the entries illustrate the regional distribution of words and phrases. A core reference, essentially without competition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
