Mark Johnson, “UW’s Dictionary of American Regional English in Financial Peril” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Apr. 21, 2013)
Ben Zimmer, who writes a column for The Boston Globe called “The Word” and serves as executive producer for the language website vocabulary.com , called the potential loss of the dictionary “a tremendous blow” to scholarship on American English.
“It’s truly America’s dictionary,” said Zimmer. “It’s the best record we have for the diverse ways Americans have used language over the course of the Republic.”
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