Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:00:27 -0400
<br>From:  TERRY IRONS  t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU 
<br>Subject: Mission & Goals
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<br>Recently, I have been reading some of the new material Donald Lance has
<br>included in an expanded 12th edition of Kenyon's American Speech (which
<br>should be soon available from the George Wahr Publishing Company in Ann
<br>Arbor Michigan). In addition to a brilliant "Spectrographic Analysis of
<br>English Phonemes and Allophones" supplement, Lance's chapter on
<br>"Variation in American English" is the sine que non discussion of the
<br>history of ADS' efforts to accomplish its two goals, as presented in
<br>1889: a dialect dictionary of North America and a complete
<br>linguistic atlas of the United States and Canada.
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<br>With DARE, we will see the achievement of the first goal.
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<br>As we enter our second century of existence as a learned society, I would
<br>invite members and others to contribute their thoughts concerning the
<br>viability of accomplishing the second goal. What resources should be
<br>directed toward the completion of what was started in 1928?
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<br>Further, what should ADS present as its goals for its next century?
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<br>Virtually, Terry
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<br>Terry Lynn Irons    t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]morehead-st.edu
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