Dictionary of American Regional English

FAIN: RE-10066-71

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
Frederic G. Cassidy (Project Director: January 1971 to present)

To produce a regional English dictionary to furnish, as nearly as possible, full treatments (pronunciations, spellings, origins, grammatical classes, definitions, dated illustrative quotations, etc.) of all the words in Modern American English usage that are not national but "region"--i.e. geographically limited, or limited to specific social groups or strata within the population.