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A staggering work of collective scholarship... -- Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun Times
In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction... -- Ezra Bowen, Time
Proof that tourism, television and technological change haven't rounded off...the gaudy and gracious edges of the way we talk. -- L. A. Jolidon, USA Today
The result is a testimonial to the metaphor-making power of the American language at its most vigorous. -- Newsweek
[This] is the penultimate (one more to go) volume in the set that no library can afford to absquatulate. -- William Safire, New York Times Magazine, December 8, 2002
In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction... -- Ezra Bowen, Time
Proof that tourism, television and technological change haven't rounded off...the gaudy and gracious edges of the way we talk. -- L. A. Jolidon, USA Today
The result is a testimonial to the metaphor-making power of the American language at its most vigorous. -- Newsweek
[This] is the penultimate (one more to go) volume in the set that no library can afford to absquatulate. -- William Safire, New York Times Magazine, December 8, 2002
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This 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 (New York Times Book Review )
It already seems clear that...the dictionary will rank as one of the glories of contemporary American scholarship...it is endlessly rewarding to dip into, and if you look up a particular word or phrase you are in constant danger of being seduced to something else...It is a work to consult, and a work to savor--a work to last a lifetime.
--John Gross (New York Times )
Proof that tourism, television and technological change haven't rounded off all the gaudy and gracious edges of the way we talk.
--L. A. Jolidon (USA Today )
A 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 (Chicago Sun Times )
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. But while they are discovering that a blind tiger is a place to buy and drink moonshine, or that there are 176 names for dust balls under the bed, they are also bound to be awed by the dictionary's staggering scholarship.
--Ezra Bowen (Time )
More than 20 years in the making, this brand-fire-new tome is loaded with the bare-naked speech that Americans really use when they 'bump their gums' with or without having had some 'sweet spirits o' cats-a-fightin' or 'conversation fluid' to make their chin music happen. The result is a testimonial to the metaphor-making power of the American language at its most vigorous. (Newsweek )
To open its pages is to thrill at the exploration of the New World and to trace the course of American history through its language...Its editors, led by Professor Frederic G. Cassidy, have caught the native poetry of America on every page.
--Fred Strebeigh (Smithsonian )
A monumental and impressive work.
--Daniel F. Phelan (Language and Linguistics )
Because these volumes are the most complete lexical records we have of the American experience, much of the history and contemporary condition of American society can be found in their pages...We are very fortunate to have DARE; it is not a dictionary; it is a national treasure.
--Edward Callary (Language in Society )
Here is the big news in the world of lexicography: DARE IV has come out of the wordwork. The Dictionary of American Regional English--repository of the most delicious dialect sources and the most colorful evidence of the Americanization of the English language--has now covered letters P to Sk...[This] is the penultimate (one more to go) volume in the set that no library can afford to absquatulate.
--William Safire (New York Times Magazine )
--Stuart B. Flexner (New York Times Book Review )
It already seems clear that...the dictionary will rank as one of the glories of contemporary American scholarship...it is endlessly rewarding to dip into, and if you look up a particular word or phrase you are in constant danger of being seduced to something else...It is a work to consult, and a work to savor--a work to last a lifetime.
--John Gross (New York Times )
Proof that tourism, television and technological change haven't rounded off all the gaudy and gracious edges of the way we talk.
--L. A. Jolidon (USA Today )
A 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 (Chicago Sun Times )
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. But while they are discovering that a blind tiger is a place to buy and drink moonshine, or that there are 176 names for dust balls under the bed, they are also bound to be awed by the dictionary's staggering scholarship.
--Ezra Bowen (Time )
More than 20 years in the making, this brand-fire-new tome is loaded with the bare-naked speech that Americans really use when they 'bump their gums' with or without having had some 'sweet spirits o' cats-a-fightin' or 'conversation fluid' to make their chin music happen. The result is a testimonial to the metaphor-making power of the American language at its most vigorous. (Newsweek )
To open its pages is to thrill at the exploration of the New World and to trace the course of American history through its language...Its editors, led by Professor Frederic G. Cassidy, have caught the native poetry of America on every page.
--Fred Strebeigh (Smithsonian )
A monumental and impressive work.
--Daniel F. Phelan (Language and Linguistics )
Because these volumes are the most complete lexical records we have of the American experience, much of the history and contemporary condition of American society can be found in their pages...We are very fortunate to have DARE; it is not a dictionary; it is a national treasure.
--Edward Callary (Language in Society )
Here is the big news in the world of lexicography: DARE IV has come out of the wordwork. The Dictionary of American Regional English--repository of the most delicious dialect sources and the most colorful evidence of the Americanization of the English language--has now covered letters P to Sk...[This] is the penultimate (one more to go) volume in the set that no library can afford to absquatulate.
--William Safire (New York Times Magazine )
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var spp, std sense, infs responding, see quot, esp freq, total infs, common wild bush, scrooch owl, first thin coating, oversize stomach, joking names, past pple, first thin ice, see sedge grass, total lnfs, adj phr, crowds around lights, var fishes, various popular names, razorback buffalo, poison alder, railroad daisy, sass hole, short stick lying, insect that holds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf Region, New England, New York, Cape Cod, Wilson Coll, Museum Bulletin, Harper's New Mth, New Orleans, United States, Lyons Plant Names, Vines Trees, Audubon Field Guide, North Carolina, Century Dict, Hench Coll, Goode Fisheries, Woods Words, Midi See Map, Audubon Soc, Program Guide, Forest Serv, Harder Coll, Small Manual, Century Illustr, Clute Amer New!
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var spp, std sense, infs responding, see quot, esp freq, total infs, common wild bush, scrooch owl, first thin coating, oversize stomach, joking names, past pple, first thin ice, see sedge grass, total lnfs, adj phr, crowds around lights, var fishes, various popular names, razorback buffalo, poison alder, railroad daisy, sass hole, short stick lying, insect that holds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf Region, New England, New York, Cape Cod, Wilson Coll, Museum Bulletin, Harper's New Mth, New Orleans, United States, Lyons Plant Names, Vines Trees, Audubon Field Guide, North Carolina, Century Dict, Hench Coll, Goode Fisheries, Woods Words, Midi See Map, Audubon Soc, Program Guide, Forest Serv, Harder Coll, Small Manual, Century Illustr, Clute Amer New!
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