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    UPDATED: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, January 2–4, 2014

    December 27, 2013

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    Grant Barrett

    (Updated December 27, 2013.) From Thursday, January 2, 2014, through Saturday, January 4, the American Dialect Society will hold its next annual meeting in Minneapolis, hosted as usual by the Linguistic Society of America. Download the preliminary full schedule (updated…

    Read more: UPDATED: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, January 2–4, 2014
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    You’re Invited to the Dictionary of American Regional English Celebration May 4, 2012, in Madison

    January 19, 2012

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    Grant Barrett

    From Joan Hall, the chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), a project supported by the American Dialect Society: To celebrate the publication of Volume V of DARE (Sl-Z) and the upcoming launch of the digital edition…

    Read more: You’re Invited to the Dictionary of American Regional English Celebration May 4, 2012, in Madison
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    PADS Back Issues Available

    February 12, 2005

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    Grant Barrett

    Back issues of the Publication of the American Dialect Society, going back to 1944, are available. Issue and ordering information.

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The mission of the American Dialect Society, a not-for-profit organization, is to encourage the study of any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare.

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