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[Mark A. Mandel]

Clai Rice writes:

> Not exactly American dialect, but likely useful nonetheless. --ccr

Fear not. Your post is constitutionally relevant. From the ADS
Constitution (http://www.americandialect.org/about.html):

II. PURPOSE

The American Dialect Society is organized in the interest of the
academic community and not for profit. Its object is the study of the
English language in North America, together with other languages or
dialects of other languages influencing it or influenced by it.

And if the English of England hasn't "influenced" N.A.English, then I
don't know what the word means.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania