I-O (III) (Dictionary of American Regional English)

Dictionary of American Regional English #3

by Frederic G. Cassidy (Editor), Joan Houston Hall (Editor)

Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the ever-changing world of American speech. Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes lefse, what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by kimmelweck or a Hawaiian baker puts into a malassada. Find out what kids on the streets of New York are doing when they play Johhny-on-the-pony, what Southerners do when they use their tom walkers, what the folks in Oklahoma and Texas celebrate on Juneteenth and those in some parts of Wisconsin at a kermis.

Genres: Language, Reference

960 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1996