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 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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...