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It's Tuesday November 7th, 2017 from Slate. It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca

and the dictionary of American regional English is no more.

The lexicographers who run the dictionary ran out of funding.

In a quite clever right up in the Wall Street Journal, they report that University of Wisconsin

English professor Frederick Cassidy launched the project in 1962.

Lawdard is quote the greatest American lexicographical project of the latter half of the 20th

century. Quite a lot of qualifications there, huh? By the American dialect society,

it aimed to capture the nation's regional words, pronunciation and syntax.

The dictionary begins with AA, which I guess is pronounced A, which means a rough lava in Hawaiian,

and moves steadily through fuzzy wag, which is a role of dust under furniture and Wisconsin.

Although if it was constantly in Minnesota and saw a fuzzy wag, they'd call it by that too.

And a rap jacket, which is a contest of endurance in which people beat one another with switches in

the South. Although I think that maybe a bunch of southerners were pulling a gag on a professor

from Wisconsin saying, oh yeah, that was a, that was a thing called a rap jacket when really they

were just beating the hell out of Earl. Here are some other phrases that the journal noted.

In Vermont, they have a griddle, which is a cooking surface I call it that too.

They also have leaf peepers, which is a tourist who looks at foliage and heavy rain from

toad strangler in the Gulf States to turd floater in Texas to gully washer out west.

Other regionalisms are less well known. There is of course the Tush tickler, the French beeper,

a croreuse girdle. I remember croreuse girdle from when I was a kid. I also remember I spent

a summer in West Virginia once and everyone there wanted to go down to the neighborhood Dirt Palace

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