Dip into the "Dictionary of American Regional English" and enter
the rich, endlessly entertaining, ever-changing world of American
speech. Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes
"lefse," what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by "kimmelweck"
or a Hawaiian baker puts into a "malassada," Find out what kids on
the streets of New York are doing when they play
"Johnny-on-the-pony" or "off-the-point," what Southerners do when
they use their "tom walkers," what the folks in Oklahoma and Texas
celebrate on "Juneteenth" and those in some parts of Wisconsin at a
"kermis,"
Like its enormously popular predecessors, this volume captures
the language of our lives, from east to west, north to south, urban
to rural, childhood to old age. Here are the terms that distinguish
us, one from the other, and knit us together in one vast, colorful
tapestry of imperfect, perfectly enchanting speech. More than five
hundred maps show where you might be if you looked in a garden and
saw "moccasin flowers," "indian cigars," or "lady peas"; if you
encountered a bullfrog and cried, ""jugarum!""; or came upon a
hover fly and exclaimed, ""newsbee!"" And here, at long last, is an
explanation of what the "madstone" and the "money cat" portend.
Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across
America and bolstered by extensive historical research, the
"Dictionary of American Regional English" preserves a language that
lives and dies as we breathe. It will amuse and inform, delight and
instruct, and keep alive the speech that we have made our own, and
that has made us who we are.
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