“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE. In January, 54 years after it was ...

Generations ago, most Canadian Inuit lived in small seasonal camps but, over the past 60 years, Inuit have settled into permanent towns, where traditional dialects intermingled and sometimes developed ...

Earlier in the year Joshua Katz, an intern with the New York Times' graphics team and a statistician at North Carolina State University, started an online survey looking at Americans' regional ...

Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary and the glossary included in clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow's Really The Blues, both published in ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Each region of our country has a distinct way of talking, don'tcha know? Now, a new dictionary is picking up on those regional dialects. The Dictionary of American Regional ...

Here a story about a book worth protecting... The latest project of a seventy-year-old retired professor was to preserve Beijing's local language. Now he's a local icon because he has complied a ...

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Lucknow: The State Education Institute (SIE), Prayagraj, has designed a first-of-its kind dialects dictionary in four volumes, containing 76,000 words in region-specific languages, including Bhojpuri, ...

MADISON, Wis.—Order a sloppy Joe in North or South Dakota, and the waiter may give you a blank stare. The popular beef-on-a-bun sandwich is known to some there as a slushburger. People from parts of ...

Jalpaiguri, June 8: A Calcutta-based NGO — Panchanan Mission — has taken the initiative to compile words from the different dialects spoken in the six districts of north Bengal. The dictionary is ...

The fifth and final volume of the book will be released in March. Feb. 1, 2012 — -- intro: The Dictionary of American Regional English showcases the diverse dialects of different areas of the ...

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Sometimes words could have the most unlikely meanings. ‘Chukki’ would be the weirdest word for a beautiful girl. But that is what Aranadan tribe in Kerala call a grown- up girl. A ...