Wednesday, November 27, 2013

American Regional English dictionary going online

In this 1965 photo provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison are researchers Reino Maki, left, and Ben Crane, with Dictionary of American Regional English founder Fred Cassidy, right, in Madison, Wis., standing next to a camper they called the Word Wagon that they used to travel the country to document the way Americans speak. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, launched a new online survey to trace how language has changed, or stayed the same, since the first round of field work completed in 1970. (AP Photo/Courtesy University of Wisconsin-Madison) MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin students and researchers set out in "word wagons" nearly 50 years ago to record the ways Americans spoke in various parts of the country.








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