Monthly Archives: September 2017

After over 50 years of work and six published volumes, the Dictionary of American Regional English is finally coming to end: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-closing-of-a-great-american-dialect-project See “Indexes and Databases” in the UBC Library for an electronic copy of the dictionary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/opinion/language-female-friendship-mothers.html

This article from the BBC needs to be read critically. Does British English really have a lot to fear from American English? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170904-how-americanisms-are-killing-the-english-language?ocid=ww.social.link.email