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Dictionary of American regional English / Frederic G. Cassidy, chief editor.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks PE2843 .D52 1985 v.1-4
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Penn Museum Library - Reference PE2843 .D52 1985 v.1-5 v.6
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--United States--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- English language.
- Americanisms--Dictionaries.
- Americanisms.
- English language--Dialects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Reference works.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Widely known as: DARE
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985-2013.
- Summary:
- A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Introduction and A-C
- v. 2. D-H
- v. 3. I-O
- v. 4. P-Sk
- v. 5. Sl-Z
- v. 6. Contrastive maps, Index to entry labels, Questionnaire, and Fieldwork data.
- Notes:
- Volumes 2-5: Joan Houston Hall, associate editor; volume 6 Joan Houston Hall, chief editor, with Luanne von Schneidemesser, senior editor.
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 5, pages 1147-1244).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dictionary of American regional English.
- ISBN:
- 0674205111
- 9780674205116
- 067420512X
- 9780674205123
- 0674205197
- 9780674205192
- 0674008847
- 9780674008847
- 9780674047358
- 0674047354
- 9780674066533
- 0674066537
- OCLC:
- 11624265
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