Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 6/30/1980

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$567,684.00 (approved)
$567,684.00 (awarded)


Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]

FAIN: RT-*0855-76

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
Frederic G. Cassidy (Project Director: February 1976 to October 1990)

To finish, as nearly as possible, full treatments (pronunciations, 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 or strata within the population.