Jacqueline Trescott, “Dictionary of American Regional English Completed” (Style blog, Washington Post, Mar. 21, 2012)
What also sets [The Dictionary of American Regional English] apart, said Ben Zimmer, the executive producer of Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, is a sense of discovery and familiarity. These are words and expressions, he said, that “you are not going to find in other dictionaries.”
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