[Lexicog] Dictionary of American Regional English completed

[rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU]

A very nice article in today's New York Times -- Fred Cassidy's great vision
has finally been fulfilled. One of my students in 1968 at Texas was a
fieldworker, driving around the state in a 'Word Wagon'. This is one of the
great historical triumphs of lexicography-cum-dialectology. (When you click
on the link, you may have to wait a few seconds to get past a commercial.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/books/dictionary-of-american-regional-english-reaches-last-volume.html?ref=arts

  Rudy

  Rudy Troike
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, Arizona
  USA



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