Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 6/30/1980

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$14,004.00 (approved)
$14,004.00 (awarded)


Dictionary of American Regional English

FAIN: RT-085576-79

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
Frederic G. Cassidy (Project Director: July 1976 to present)

To finish, as nearly as possible, full treatments (pronuunciations, spellings, origins, grammatical classes, definitions, dated illustrative questions, etc.) of all the words in modern American English usage that are not national but "regional" - i.e. geographically limited, or limited to specific social groups.