Amazon.com
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.
Midwest Book Review
Reviewers of Volumes I and II have already pointed out that this reference is a valuable tool for linguistic and sociological research at the college level. But DARE, with its emphasis on regional and folk speech, is also a valuable teaching resource for language arts and social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels. Liberally illustrated with unique, computer-generated maps demonstrating the regional distribution of many words and phrases, DARE is also a gold mine for browsers with an interest in American English as it is spoken. Vol. III of DARE would be an extremely useful addition to the reference section of any school or public library.
