Dictionary of American Regional English, III - I-O (Hardcover, New)

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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