DARE

[Joel S. Berson]

There was a more informative and flattering article in the NY Times
on Feb. 25, as the lead article of the Arts section (C1).  Also
on-line at
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/books/dictionary-of-american-regional-english-reaches-last-volume.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=dare&st=cse&scp=3

Joel

At 2/28/2012 08:34 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Unlike that very nice piece (with accompanying podcast) on vocal fry
>in today's Times that Geoff Nathan mentioned, there was a pretty sad
>story at the end of the ABC World News Tonight tonight with Diane
>Sawyer who explained that "a new dictionary is out", referring of
>course to the final volume completing the wonderful, but not exactly
>brand new, DARE project.  I think she did identify it quickly as the
>Dictionary of American Regional English, but if so that part went by
>very quickly and the story by John Berman giving illustrations of
>funny regional words, not very clearly presented (you sometimes
>couldn't tell which were the lexical items and which were the
>glosses when they went up on the screen), never mentioned DARE at
>all.  He says "It's a celebration of our diversity", but he never
>actually says what "it" is.  Oh well, I guess any publicity--even
>barely any publicity--is better than no publicity.

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org