This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Relics for the Asking in Centralia Illinois
Prof Frederic Cassidy leads the Dictionary of American Regional English project a $1 million effort to collect define phoneticize and map regional words. Since 1965 researchers have interviewed 2000 volunteers yielding 2.5 million answers from all 50 states. The project uncovers archaisms regional terms and American coinages like golly-marbles hippo gumbo-whackum kettle cousin and plonk reflecting diverse speech across the nation. Cassidy edits the volumes starting this year aiming to publish two or three books in about three years.
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Centralia
Ill
Frederic Cassidy
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Cassidy
Besom
West
William Shakespeare
Tidewater
Virginia
North Carolina
Capt
John Smith
County
South Carolina
Kentucky