January ADS Newsletter

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

Guess what - the January issue of NADS is actually out in January! Thanks to
webmaster Grant Barrett, you can get it now if you go to our website

http://www.americandialect.org/

and click on the pdf download.

The issue has calls for papers for all known ADS meetings in the rest of
2003, and then some. It also reports on Executive Council business at our
recent meeting, and of course there are those elusive words DARE would like
to know more about.

The old-fashioned hard-copy version is at the printer now. It will be next
week before that gets sent out by old-fashioned postal service. If you have
paid ADS dues for 2003, you'll be sure to get a copy, and even those who paid
for 2002 but haven't quite yet paid for 2003 will be sent copies too. If
you're not an ADS member but would like this, merely one of the least of the
benefits of membership, go to the website and click on "Become a member" and
see what excitement follows.

If you're a member but would be content to forego the old-fashioned copy by
mail, please let me know: AAllan at aol.com, and I won't trouble you with one,
and you'll save us 37 cents or more.

- Allan Metcalf, executive secretary, ADS