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The Foundations of the DlCTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH

The DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH is unique among dictionaries because of its collection of responses from all fifty states of the United States to questions asked by fieldworkers of about 2800 informants within a five-year time span. This database has revealed much about the English language in the U.S. hitherto unknown or incompletely documented. Topics covered in the collection include many seldom found in written material. This paper explains how the material is used as a basis for the dictionary, together with a large collection of written data. It demonstrates how it is organized for editing and how it can be used to dertermine geographical and social distribution of terms. The types of maps and statistics which can be produced are illustrated.