Lucknow: The State Education Institute (SIE), Prayagraj, has designed a first-of-its kind dialects dictionary in four volumes, containing 76,000 words in region-specific languages, including Bhojpuri, ...

The makers of the Dictionary of American Regional English have nearly finished their latest edition. They've traveled the U.S. for decades noting regional dialect. A potluck dinner may be called a ...

Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary and the glossary included in clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow's Really The Blues, both published in ...

Here a story about a book worth protecting... The latest project of a seventy-year-old retired professor was to preserve Beijing's local language. Now he's a local icon because he has complied a ...

“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE. In January, 54 years after it was ...

This idiosyncratic, discursive dictionary was assembled to unravel the most unusual, obscure, and curious words, expressions, and proper or place names found on race records, the music industry trade ...

Back when I was in junior high school in South Carolina, a transfer student from California joined our homeroom class. On his first day there, he announced — for no apparent reason — “Man, I’m jonesin ...