Dictionary of American Regional English

美国英语是否正在被媒体和美国公众的流动性“同质化”？几代人之后，我们会说同样的话吗？ 出版的四卷《美国区域英语词典》（DARE）表明，虽然随着时间的推移，语言的变化是不可避免的，但成千上万的单词、短语和发音仍然在我们国家的各个地区有所不同。 区域分布可能相当小（例如，“tump”在切萨皮克海湾地区表示“一个小丘”，或“坚韧jack”在肯塔基州表示“一种糖蜜糖果”）;或者它们可以非常大（例如，“跷跷板”，这是发现在大多数北部和西部，和“跷跷板”，这是常见的整个南部和米德兰）。在国家科学基金会的支持下，琼·休斯顿·霍尔博士和DARE的工作人员将继续从事DARE第五卷（S1-Z）的工作，预计将于2009年出版。 前四卷分别于1985年（A-C）、1991年（D-H）、1996年（I-O）和2002年（P-Sk）由哈佛大学出版社的贝尔纳普出版社出版。 DARE材料（包括录音以及出版的卷）已被教师，语言学家，历史学家，图书馆员和词典编纂者广泛使用。 它们也被法医语言学家、医生（用于理解患者使用的民间医学术语）、精神病学家（用于评估标准化测试中未识别的区域同义词）以及记者、研究人员、方言教练和剧作家使用。 它们也被那些喜欢美国英语的多样性和创造性的读者所使用。《纽约时报》将DARE描述为“美国正在进行的最激动人心的语言学项目”和“当代美国学术界的荣耀之一”。"

Is American English being "homogenized" by the media and the mobility of the American public? Will we all talk alike within a few generations? The four published volumes of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) demonstrate that, while language change is inevitable over time, thousands of words, phrases, and pronunciations still vary from one part of our country to another. Regional distributions can be quite small (e.g., "tump" meaning 'a hummock' in the Chesapeake Bay area, or "tough jack" 'a kind of molasses candy' in Kentucky); or they can be very large (e.g., "teeter-totter," which is found across most of the North and West, and "see-saw," which is common throughout the South and Midland). With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Joan Houston Hall and the staff of DARE will continue work on Volume V of DARE (Sl-Z), projected for publication in 2009. The first four volumes of the Dictionary were published in 1985 (A-C), 1991 (D-H), 1996 (I-O), and 2002 (P-Sk) by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. DARE materials (including audio recordings as well as the published volumes) have been widely used by teachers, linguists, historians, librarians, and lexicographers. They have also been used by forensic linguists, physicians (to understand folk medical terms used by their patients), psychiatrists (to evaluate regional synonyms not recognized in standardized tests), and by journalists, researchers, dialect coaches, and playwrights. They are also used by readers who simply delight in the variety and creativity of our American English language. DARE has been described in the New York Times as "the most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States" and "one of the glories of contemporary American scholarship."