Joan Houston Hall, Chief Editor Emerita, Dictionary of American Regional English Edward Finegan, University of Southern California Edward Finegan is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law at the ...

Careful if someone from the South or South Midland states tells you that you have a booger—they could mean something more ...

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Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using ...

It includes words in both British and American English. The dictionary & thesaurus includes audio pronunciation, text pronunciation, adjectives, adverbs, synonyms, antonyms, similar word ...

In addition to street corn (noun, grilled corn on the cob that is coated with a creamy spread), additional nouns include ...

dictionary prepared by the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) is now available in 10 regional languages. At the same time, on Monday on the celebration of Sign Language Day ...

Worries of financial contagion affected regional bank stocks across the board, prompting President Joe Biden to speak publicly to reassure American depositors that their money was in safe hands.

On October 1, Merriam-Webster added 200 new words and definitions to the dictionary, including “jam band,” a noun defined as ...

American regional cultures, environmental humanities ... Bryonie Carter (Ph.D. candidate, American Studies) was promoted to full professor in English at St. Charles Community College in St. Charles, ...

However, when prompted about speakers of African American English, large language models spit out negative ... Since the 1960s, linguists have studied the origins of AAE, its regional variations, and, ...

The recent additions come after the dictionary included cheffy, chef’s kiss, jollof rice, smashburger and stagiaire ...