[BITList] What a whoopensocker! Dialect dictionary reaches Z

[John Feltham]

What a whoopensocker! Dialect dictionary reaches Z
By Mark Johnson
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted:   02/27/2012 12:01:00 AM CST
Updated:   02/27/2012 11:30:53 AM CST

 

After almost half a century of work, thousands of interviews with residents in every corner of America, missed deadlines and the deaths of senior editors, the quest to complete the Madison-based Dictionary of American Regional English has reached a successful conclusion. They made it to Z.

For the rest of this article, see  http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_20054412


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