Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III: I-O

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III: I-O





The third volume in a popular series, based upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America as well as extensive historical research, records the unique vocabulary of different regions of the country, shown in more than five hundred maps. UP. We Dictionary of American Regional English fans who've been hemmed in by the Hs for too long can celebrate; Volume III has arrived. Finally one can troll I-O, collecting gems like jug-handle, kyoodle, lip battle, meech, numpy, and ouchy (treat unfairly, mutt, argument, cringe, dolt, and irritable) along the way. String them together they become: "If you jug-handle that kyoodle and make him meech, you ouchy numpy, we're bound for a real lip battle." It makes a jim-dandy of an American English sentence.









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