Words from the Dictionary of American Regional English

After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just finished the nation's most ambitious dictionary of regional dialects

• By Abigail Tucker
• Smithsonian magazine, March 2012

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This is a great article!  I would love to own this book.