DARE Digital, Coming in 2013

The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)—representing the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam’s housecat to Zydeco—has long been consulted by a wide range of scholars and lovers of language and regional nuance. The digital version of DARE, to be launched by Harvard University Press in 2013, will transform the dictionary into an interactive, multimedia tool that will greatly benefit both scholarly inquiry and general intellectual curiosity.

Key features will include…

• State-of-the-art search
• Browsing by region as well as alphabetically
• Audio of original DARE field recordings
• Maps illustrating regional distribution
• Saved searches and entries for easy reference
• Insights into the DARE survey

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The Books

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  Volume I : A–C
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  Volume II : D–H
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  Volume III : I–O
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  Volume IV : P–Sk
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  Volume V : Sl–Z
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  Volume VI : Index

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Related Links

• « Back to the DARE Main Page
• See all DARE volumes and buy online
• The official DARE Project website
• DARE feature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Communications Office
• DARE on Facebook

DARE in the Press

• ABC World News (with quiz)
• AirTalk (KPCC)
• American Way
• Arts Beat (NYT  blog)
• As It Happens (CBC Radio)
• Associated Press (via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• The Bangor Daily News
• The Bellingham Herald
• The Boston Globe
• The Boston Globe (subscription required)
• The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Daily Beast
• Dialogue (Idaho Public Television) (audio)
• The Diane Rehm Show (WAMU)
• The Denver Post
• Emory Magazine
• Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
• The Guardian
• Here & Now (WBUR)
• Humanities Magazine
• I Remember (Milwaukee Public Television)
• Ideas Market (WSJ  blog)
• The Kathleen Dunn Show (WPR)
• Lapham’s Quarterly
• Lapham’s Quarterly (podcast)
• The Larry Meiller Show (WPR)
• Lingua Franca (CHE blog): I • II • III
• Mental Floss
• The Millions
• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• The Minneapolis Star Tribune
• The New York Times (with sidebar)
• The New Yorker
• The New Yorker (“Best of 2012” Selections)
• NPR Books
• On Wisconsin
• Reuters
• The Richmond Times-Dispatch
• The San Antonio Express-News
• Seattle’s Morning News (KIRO)
• Smithsonian
• Smithsonian (“Top Books of 2012”)
• Special English (Voice of America)
• Squid Ink (L.A. Weekly food blog)
• The Style Blog (Washington Post blog)
• The Takeaway (WNYC)
• Tampa Bay Online
• The Times-Picayune
• The Tulsa World
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal (with interactive)
• Weekend Edition Sunday (NPR)
• Whitehouse.gov
• Words and Their Stories (Voice of America)
• WKOW News (Madison, WI)
• You Don’t Say (Baltimore Sun blog): I • II