Collected together in the Dictionary of American Regional English, the words make up a fascinating repository for old-fashioned, funny-sounding and unmistakably local language quirks across the ...

“The editing of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English will realize a dream I’ve nurtured since I first studied the pages of Samuel Johnson’s ‘Dictionary of the English Language ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

A comprehensive dictionary is being compiled to showcase the impact Black Americans have had on the development of the English language. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE ...

The dictionary includes some 60,000 entries ... New words spring up all the time, but American language has become duller in some respects, because of the homogenizing impact of mass culture.

OPINION: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, which will be edited by noted historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., will tell the story of Black people in a new way. Editor’s note: The ...

The American Dialect Society selected a term that refers ... Merriam-Webster began selecting its own words in 2003; the Oxford English Dictionary followed in 2004. Mr. Carson joined the society ...

The Oxford Dictionary of African-American English will also include ... “We are endlessly inventive with language, and we had to be,” Gates said of Black linguists.

executive secretary of the American Dialect Society. "These are the interesting details that make us distinctive." A University of Wisconsin English professor started work on the dictionary about ...

Long before Noah Webster completed his 1828 magnum opus, “An American Dictionary of the English Language,” he published a wildly successful primer called “A Grammatical Institute of the ...