<html><body><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" dir="ltr"><font size="3">Reminder:</font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font>The American Dialect Society will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Thursday, January 8, through Sunday, January 11, 2026, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The meeting will be held at the New Orleans Marriott.<br><br><b>Friday, August 1, 2025, is the deadline</b> for poster and 20-minute paper proposals.<br><br>Proposals should address topics related to all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. We also encourage topics related to lexicography, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic landscapes, language and society, and public language-awareness programs.<br><br>Learn more:<br><br><a href="https://americandialect.org/2026-cfp/">https://americandialect.org/2026-cfp/</a><br><br>Best wishes,</font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font>Grant Barrett<br>American Dialect Society<br>Vice President of Communications and Technology<br><a href="https://www.americandialect.org">https://www.americandialect.org</a><br><a href="mailto:grantbarrett@gmail.com">grantbarrett@gmail.com</a></font><br></p></body></html>