DARNewsletterE oVol. 12, No. 1 Dictionary of American Regional English Winter 2009o

Letter Z Chosen to Honor Fred Cassidy

or the last decade or so, DARE has had a devel- Fopment initiative called the “Adopt a Letter” program, in which donors of $100,000 or more have had the opportunity to “adopt” a letter of their choice. We are delighted to say that at this point six individuals and three private founda- tions have earned the right to claim a letter. Their ­choices have been A, C, D, F, G, J, R, S, and T. While most friends of DARE are not in a posi- tion to give at that level, many donors have given generously either to the Dictionary of American Regional English Fund or the Frederic G. Cassidy DARE Fund (which was established after his death in 2000). Last spring at a meeting of the DARE Board of Visitors, Development Director Jon Sorenson announced that the Frederic G. Cassidy DARE Fund had topped the $100,000 mark! With that goal having been reached, the members of The Heart of Ohio the Board voted to adopt a letter in Fred’s honor. Stephanie Hysmith Remembering the “On to Z!” rallying cry that he delighted in using, the Board unanimously chose Z ince 2001, I’ve been teaching a class called The as Fred’s adoptive letter. SDevelopment of American English at Ohio We know that he would be pleased. We are also University. Many people are familiar with the sure he would puckishly remind us that there are beautiful Athens campus, but Ohio University has still sixteen letters left! F five regional campuses ranging across a quarter of the state—the southeast corner of what we call Appalachian Ohio. These campuses attract many nontraditional students who hope to return to Also in This Issue: the work force, oftentimes as teachers. These are Contributors to DARE in 2008...... 5 my students, and I teach them from Athens over a compressed video system, usually speaking to Coming in Volume V ...... 6 all five campuses simultaneously. When you’re on DARE in the Limelight in Europe...... 6 TV and not physically with the students, it’s chal- lenging to keep them engaged and interested. My Where Are They Now?—Berit Givens . 7 solution has been to assign primary field research Continued on page 2

1 The Heart of Ohio Continued from page 1 mantic and wonderful than traveling the country papers and then have the students share their ex- collecting words. periences with the class. The students’ assignment is to create a ques- I’ve been a fan of DARE for years, and have al- tionnaire by selecting a variety of cues from the ways enjoyed reading the DARE Newsletter. In fact, original DARE Questionnaire, and then report on several of the articles are included in my course the responses from fifteen informants. They can materials. When I thought about how I could uti- work alone or in groups. My assignment sheet lize DARE in my classroom, the first hurdle was includes this caveat: “Some informants will be that not all of the campus libraries had even the worried about giving the ‘correct’ answer. Explain first volume. I whined and squeaked about how that there are no correct answers, that you are their penurious policies were preventing me from simply replicating the fieldwork of the Dictionary developing my course. Finally, all purchased cop- of American Regional English, and that diversity is ies. the spice of life.” Some of them use that line to I introduce my students to DARE by hauling in good effect. Others report that they’ve gotten re- my copy of Volume I to show them. Then I settle sponses such as “You’re just trying to make fun them in for story time. I set the stage by telling of me.” One student had a dilemma in how to re- them what was going on in the country then— port a response from one of her informants. When the mid-1960s—the Vietnam War protests, the asked what she called the small black animal with American Civil Rights Movement, flower power, a white stripe down its back, the informant replied, and hippies. I tell them about Frederic Cassidy “Well, I know people call it a skunk, but it’s really and his labor of love, the DARE project, which he a polecat.” Sometimes I think the stories of the dif- began in 1963. I tell them the wonderful anecdote ficulties in getting informants to respond do more about his being in Jamaica and hearing some lo- to drive home the reality of dialects than the actual cals talking disparagingly about the foreigners. exercise. (He responded in fluent Jamaican and ended up One woman from the Chillicothe campus took being welcomed into their homes.) And then I my advice to ask older people—I tell my students read Sharon Huizenga’s very vivid recollections of they’ve been around longer and they know more— working as a DARE Fieldworker (from the Spring/ and visited a nursing home. Of course, the resi- Summer 2005 issue of the DARE Newsletter), dents were thrilled by her visit and shared many camping out in her Word Wagon in the mountains creative expressions. She seemed to think they felt of Virginia, collecting regional expressions, and validated and appreciated for their ability to help sharing meals with her informants, not to mention her just by recalling what expressions they could trying her hand at squirrel hunting. After hearing remember. her story, one student was ready to pack up and Another student from Zanesville took advantage head out; he thought nothing could be more ro- of a power outage at work. She said, “Hey, while we’re just waiting around, how about helping me For the last half-century, I have worked on with a project for school?” Her co-workers laughed the now-completed, nine-volume edition of The and laughed and kept thinking of one answer after Collected Poems of John Clare, 1793-1864, Clarendon another. Press, Oxford. Clare has recently come to be rec- One student told us his mother was in a nurs- “ognized as one of the most important English ing home, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. She Romantic poets. I am in the process of checking my kept saying something about a press, and no one Clare glossaries against DARE, with remarkable knew what she meant. Finally, an elderly aunt results. It is intriguing how many of Clare’s dialect said the mother was referring to a clothes press; she words still survive in regional use in the USA (even meant a wardrobe or closet. I asked a lady from my when they’ve vanished from use in Great Britain). quilt guild, who was in her eighties at the time, if Because so many of the entries in DARE are from she had ever heard of a press. “Of course,” she re- speakers of dialect (rather than simply the writers of plied. (This is the same lady who couldn’t believe it), the text is extraordinarily valuable. No one in- I had anything to do with the field of education, terested in the dialect-forms of English could help judging from my conversations with other quilt­ but be fascinated by DARE. ers about dialects. She said, “You are as funny as Scratch!”—which I then had to look up to discover Eric H. Robinson it meant the devil.) M.A., Litt.D., Cambridge” University 2 Whether people around here say poke, sack, or and went into a butcher shop. “Do you have city bag has been on many students’ questionnaires. chicken?” she asked. (City chicken is breaded, skew- This led one woman from the Ironton campus to ered pork served covered with gravy and is, ap- tell a story. (Ironton is in the southern part of the parently, quite popular in St. Clairsville. According state, right on the Ohio River across from Kentucky, to the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, this was a favorite and the local residents’ dialect is influenced by recipe during the Depression, when chicken was their southern neighbors.) She worked part-time at more expensive than pork.) a convenience store. One evening a young cashier “No, ma’am,” she was told. “All of our chickens came running over to her and said, “Tessa, there’s come from the country.” a man over there who’s really mad at me.” I get the same range of diversity across cam- Tessa went over to the man, who was quite red puses when we discuss what folks call green or bell in the face, and asked what was wrong. He said, “I peppers. Students from elsewhere in Ohio are often told her I wanted a poke.” stunned to learn that many locals in Athens call “Yes,” she said, “and what did she do?” them mangoes. Others say their mothers or grand- “Why, she poked me!” mothers make stuffed mangoes. Another student related a story about the time I tell them how I went into a local grocery her boyfriend’s car broke down at the top of a hill. where they had both the tropical fruit and the He was going for help, looked back, and shouted green pepper on sale for $0.50. When I checked to my student, “Chock the tire!” out, the cashier picked up the fruit and asked “What?” she asked. what it was. “A mango,” I replied. She looked “Chock the tire!” down at the bell pepper. “It’s another kind of “What?” mango,” I explained, and she nodded and rang The car rolled down the hill into a tree. That’s me up. how we sometimes learn new terms. A chock is a I hear protests of “That’s wrong! A mango is wedge or block of wood that’s meant to prevent a tropical fruit.” Hmmm. Yes, indeed. I tell them the movement of a wheel—a new one on me, too. that my stepfather grew up in Tennessee. I asked The Eastern campus in St. Clairsville is him once, “Joe, did you ever call a bell pepper a also on the Ohio River, but north, across from mango?” Morgantown, West Virginia. A student there told “Yes,” he replied, “until I moved to Cincinnati about an argument she had with some family and everyone told me I was wrong.” He still re- and friends while watching the Super Bowl. She members feeling stupid and ignorant sixty years insisted that pigs in a blanket were those little hot later. dogs wrapped in dough and baked. Her husband It’s not wrong, it’s just different is the mantra I insisted that pigs in a blanket were cabbage rolls. try to get my students to intone in these confron- This started quite a conversation, with students tations about regional variation. I feel validated from some of the centrally-located campuses in when I get e-mails from my students saying “I’ll Lancaster and Chillicothe having never heard of never make fun of my mother again.” such a thing and a couple of students from the The fun part, for me, comes when I read the re- other Ohio River campus in Ironton saying yes, ports. I have pages of scribbled notes with county their grandmothers called them that. The older stu- names, ages of informants, whatever I could jot dents from St. Clairsville said that when they were down. Joan Hall has received e-mails from me in elementary school, the cafeteria would post in which I remark about the range of counties daily lunch menus on a board and pigs in a blanket in which informants use the term slickery, for ex- were, indeed, cabbage rolls. ample. It is so enlightening for all of us when stu- I was amazed—this was my first quarter teach- dents report on something no one in the group has ing this class—and mentioned it to my husband’s heard before and we later find the term, as well as administrative assistant. “You wouldn’t believe its range of use, validated in DARE. what my students told me today,” I started, and Here are some examples of words and phrases told her about the cabbage rolls. collected by my students: “Well,” she replied, “in my part of Morgan County, pigs in a blanket means a ground pork cas- Adam Smithing—being a copycat serole with a biscuit topping.” I nearly fell over. boo, dipset, honeydip—nicknames for a sweet- One of the administrators from St. Clairsville re- heart lated a funny story to me. She was visiting Phoenix booter—a flirty guy

3 bottoms, downs—nicknames for a bad part of area of Ohio, not far from the Ironton campus on town the Ohio River. Her family moved to northern bufa, heerymother—nicknames for a grandmother Ohio when she was quite young. When she went carry-in dinner, grab-and-gather—a potluck meal to school, she pronounced something the way corduroy, washboard, road to Deliverance County— she had heard it pronounced her entire life, and joking names for a back road was promptly placed in a special education class. davenette—a couch Twenty-two years later, she remembers the humili- death crow, dirty bird—a vulture ation she felt. frog-strangler, biddy-strangler—a heavy rain I do my best to make my students rejoice in the galluses—suspenders creative diversity of our regional dialects. Some grinnies—chipmunks people will probably fault me for not striving to hippin, seat cover—a diaper get our teachers to crack down on dialectal varia- hoopdie—a broken-down car tion and to make everyone speak the same. Let in a skosh—in a second them fire me. I treasure messages from students jakey—a careless dresser such as the following, written by a young man knuckledragger—an awkward or clumsy person from the Ironton campus: lettuce corners—the stemmy part of romaine let- “Thank you for the insight that you provided me tuce with as a future teacher. Growing up in Southern mess ’n’ gom—spontaneous, unplanned activity Ohio, I have felt the implications of speaking with mog—to eat rapidly and noisily a distinct dialect from time to time. I would never outhouse lilies—common orange day lilies want to hinder my students or make them feel any poochin’—pregnant less proud of themselves because of the way that rivels—noodles they speak. I want to portray an example of pride scallywags—nonsense to my future students and help them to realize that sickbed baby—a child conceived when the father they can succeed anywhere, regardless of speech. was ill Our speech gives us character and uniqueness! sipsy—a crybaby Thanks for helping me to view dialect in a positive sunny—of milk: gone sour light!” Tennessee chicken—meat from slaughtered pet Ohio’s dialect regions are varied and have obvi- rabbits ously been influenced by the migration and settle- tree lawn, grass verge—the strip of grass between ment patterns of different population groups. I the sidewalk and the road love what I’ve discovered in Appalachian Ohio whistle pig—a groundhog and hope I’ve inspired my students to be both yard-ache—an unruly child champions of their dialects and respectful and un- derstanding of others’. F It’s my belief that not everyone has to go to col- lege, and if people are comfortable in their lives Stephanie Hysmith has always been interested in dia- and in their communities, who cares whether they lects and accents, having grown up in the multicultural say The car needs washed or if they call a stockpot a Washington, D.C. area (and having listened to friends kittle? Language is so personal, and in Appalachia and family members who spoke with German, Polish, we deal with the stigma of being regarded as igno- and British accents, not to mention her Oklahoma-born rant hillbillies. The last thing teachers should want father). She has performed on stage as the mother in to do is destroy the self-esteem of their pupils. I Brighton Beach Memoirs (using a Brooklyn accent) tell my students the story of a woman I knew in and as various characters (all the ones with foreign ac- graduate school who grew up in the Portsmouth cents) in Spoon River Anthology. While working on her M.A. in English at Ohio University, Stephanie took I’m enjoying reading Wallace Stegner’s book an introductory linguistics class and found her calling. about Powell’s Grand Canyon expedition. He She now has two Master’s degrees, one in English and uses some unfamiliar words to me. ‘Boodle’ is one one in linguistics, and teaches two linguistics courses which was new. We looked it up in DARE, and ap- for the Department of English. When not entertaining “preciated understanding it better. Ohio University students with her renditions of various American accents, Stephanie enjoys gardening, quilting, Carol R. Houston singing, contra dancing, traveling, building Habitat San Rafael, California ” houses, and volunteering at her local community center. 4 CONTRIBUTORS TO DARE IN 2008

he Dictionary of American Regional English is grateful for the support of these donors in 2008. Gifts were Treceived by the Dictionary of American Regional English Fund and the Frederic G. Cassidy DARE Fund. Because this is a national project, it is particularly meaningful that gifts were received from supporters in thirty-five states and the District of Columbia (and friends in Canada and France as well). Please consider joining the ranks of DARE contributors in 2009 by using the coupon on page 8.

Constance K. Knop, WI DARE Bascom Hill Contributor John J. & Barbara L. Augenstein, WI Richard W. & Julia R. Huttar William A. Kretzschmar Jr., GA $25,000 and above Bailey, MI John & Ginny Moore Kruse, WI Franklin Philanthropic Foundation, IL Karl Benghauser, MI Sidney Landau, NY The Andrew W. Mellon Robert W. & Jean H. Bonar, CA Robert G. & Nancy W. Lewis, WI Foundation, NY Lloyd R. & Genevieve J. Bostian, WI Huei-Shiuan Liau, MD National Endowment for the Elizabeth Abell Brinkman, OH Cosima V. Lyttle, GA Humanities, DC Susan P. Bryant-Kimball, NH Jane & Louis J. Maher Jr., WI National Science Foundation, DC Ronald R. Butters, NC Beverly A. McGraw, VA UW Graduate School, WI Charlotte Cassidy, CT Janet L. & Thomas C. Monk, WI Vital Projects Fund, Inc., NY Claire M. Cassidy & John Rosine, MD Robert M. Moore, OH DARE Lake Mendota Associate Danielle Cassidy, CO Sherrill J. Munson, WI $10,000–$24,999 H. Alexander Cassidy, CO Maureen A. Nery, SC Michael M. & Jacquelyn J. Patricia T. O’Conner & Stewart N. John A. Shea, IL Cassidy, WI Kellerman, CT DARE Family Member Nick Cassidy, CO Joan A. Paulson, WI $1,000–$9,999 Victor M. Cassidy, IL Jack O. Pfister, WI Gregory P. Alfus, IL Genevieve Chaillou-Weber, France Pitney Bowes Corporation, DC John & Adele S. Algeo, GA Joyce S. Cohrs, GA Terry Pratt, Canada John G. Bordie, TX David Y. & Annabelle Collins, WI Dennis R. & Carol Preston, OK Brittingham Fund, Inc., DE Alfred C. Cottrell, NC Douglas Quine, CT Connemara Fund, WY Vincent Dimarco, Canada Peter S. Rahko, WI Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Rosemary M. Dorney, WI Mary J. Resnik, MD Kaplan Fund, Inc., NY Douglas W. Downey, IL Kenneth A. Robb, OH Joan Houston Hall, WI Gary S. Dunbar, NY Andrew A. Rossbach, MD Estate of Richard D. Maxwell, NY Connie Claire Eble, NC Eric R. & Nancy T. Rude, WI Wade T. & Mary Lu Wright Richard H. Ekman, NJ Wilbert and Genevieve Schauer Mitchell, GA Karen V.N. Ellis, VA Foundation, Inc., FL New York Times Foundation, Inc., NY Catherine L. Ellsworth, NY Yvonne J. Schofer, WI Grace Jones Richardson Trust, NC Harold Frederick Farwell Jr., NC Royal C. Schomp, MD Charles T. & Anne Mulgrew Scott, WI Beverly J. Flanigan, WI Phyllis Lathrope Schwahn, WI Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, CA Jack F. Foster, FL Leslie J. Scott, OH Sabrina A. Summers, AL Donald F. & Nancy Gaines, WI Steven K. & Alice J. Sedgwick, WI Godfrey L. & M. Irene Gattiker, PA Michael C. Shapiro, WA DARE Circle of Friends Eugenia C. Gengler, AZ Ann W. Sharp, SC $500–$999 Betty Ruth George, AK Connie L. Shehan, FL Michael P. Adams, IN E. Ward Gilman, MA Roger W. Shuy, MT Martha G. Blalock, WI Kathleen Glaser, TN John M. Smith, WI Butterfly Foundation, NY James A. Graham, MN Anne J. Stone, MD Chevron Matching Gift Program, NJ L. Kenneth & Elizabeth D. Edwin Swillinger, CA Karen Cornwell & Kenneth Hammond, GA Judith A. Taylor, WI Hammel, WI Orin K. Hargraves, MD John Tinkler, TN Mary E. McAndrews, WI Dolores R. Harris, DC Richard P. Vacca, MA Cynthia L. Moore, FL Michael M.T. & Carol H. Patricia A. VanDyke, MO Robert H. Moore, VA Henderson, KS Barbara J. Vass, WI George L. & Kathleen K. Standish & Jane N. Henning, WI Nancy E. & John G. Webster, WI Schueppert, IL Lynn H. Huber, FL Joseph J. Wiesenfarth, WI Virginia Schwerin, NY Julia A. Ihlenfeldt, WI Anna M. Williams, WI Telise Johnsen, WI Rosalind Woodward, WI DARE Supporter Barbara Johnstone, PA George T. Wright, AZ Up to $499 Mary S. Kamps, WI Bettie Zillman, WI Robert J. Alexander, PA Ellin M. Kelly, IL Ernest G. ZumBrunnen, CA Louie W. & Barbara Attebery, ID Christopher & Margaret Kleinhenz, WI Arnold M. Zwicky, CA

5 DARE in the Limelight in Europe Coming in Volume V hile in Europe over the holidays to visit her squizzle (up) To wrinkle, contort, shrivel. son, who is teaching English in Austria on (Chiefly NEng) W a Fulbright Fellowship, Senior Editor Luanne von swimmy-headed Dizzy. (Sth, S Midl) Schneidemesser accepted invitations to give guest lectures on DARE at two universities in Germany three-foot A three-footed stand for a large and one in Norway. kettle. (PA) At the University of Potsdam, one of six univer- twitch In logging: to drag (a log). sities participating in the Language Variation in (Chiefly NEng) Northern Germany project, she spoke to an enthu- siastic audience of linguists about “Regionalität im upscuddle A noisy quarrel; a disturbance, DARE.” tumult. (Chiefly sAppala- Moving on to Oslo, Luanne met with the staff chians) of the Norsk Ordbok, the definitive dictionary of whet A turn, try, spell of activity; an Norwegian, for which collecting started in 1930. indefinite interval of time. All early material has been digitized, and a corpus (Sth, S Midl) of Nynorsk (the more modern of the two standard written varieties of the Norwegian language) de- whew To hurry, bustle about. (Chiefly veloped for editorial use. Here Luanne’s audience NEng) was particularly interested in the more techni- which What? Pardon me?—used to re- cal details of DARE’s structure and production. quest the repetition of some- Four of the projected twelve volumes of the Norsk thing improperly heard or Ordbok have been published, and more are in understood. (Sth, S Midl) press; with increased funding from a government grant, the dictionary unit was expanded in 2002 whiffle A crew haircut. (Chiefly eMA) to facilitate completion of the dictionary in 2014 to whiffler The goldeneye duck. (Chiefly help celebrate the bicentennial of the Norwegian MD, VA) constitution. (Unlike DARE, the Norsk Ordbok is fully funded by the Norwegian government.) whirlygust A whirlwind. (Esp NC, TN) Luanne unfortunately slipped on the ice shortly whoop-and-hide Hide-and-seek. (Chiefly Sth, S before her scheduled departure from Oslo, shatter- Midl) ing her elbow. Despite receiving excellent medical care in Norway (as well as invaluable, gracious whoopensocker Something extraordinary of its assistance from lexicographer Dagfinn Worren and kind; a stiff drink. (WI) his wife, Ingeborg Kongslien), Luanne had to can- cel her scheduled talk at the University of Aachen whop over To collapse, tumble, flop. (NEng) and return to Madison for surgery. She reports very whore’s egg A sea urchin. (ME) slow but steady progress as she works at regaining full range of motion in her injured arm. F willywags Tangled underbrush; an area covered with such under- brush; a remote, sparsely in- habited area. (Chiefly nNEng, esp ME) winkle-hawk A right-angled tear in cloth; a rip or cut. (Chiefly Hudson River Valley) winter potato A stone that has been heaved to the surface of a field by freezing and thawing of the ground. (WI)

Luanne von Schneidemesser in the Norsk Ordbok offices 6 A: My favorite thing was to look through all the written accounts of the oral interviews. It’s fun to see the actual handwriting of the people who conducted all those interviews. It was especially fun when the interviewee had some long story or response to a question. I thought listening to some of the old tapes was fun, but I found it very dif- ficult, too. I don’t have a very good ear for under- standing some of the thick accents, especially some Southern accents. Q: What do you especially enjoy about living in California (other than escaping Wisconsin win- ters)? A: Well, my first answer was going to be “escap- ing Wisconsin winters”! The number-one thing, though, is my family and friends. My parents live only about two hours’ drive away, and my in-laws are just ten minutes away. Since we’ve had kids, they’ve been lifesavers. I can’t imagine trying to raise children far away from these support systems. I also love the diversity here. Cal Poly is about 30% White, 30% Asian-American, 30% Hispanic/Latino, Where Are They Now? and 10% African-American. I enjoy interacting with people from so many different backgrounds. Berit Givens began volunteering for DARE in Q: What do you like most about teaching at the the summer of 2000, while pursuing a Ph.D. in university level? What are your areas of research? mathematics at UW–Madison. After complet- A: I like that I get to teach topics that are new ing her dissertation (entitled Hypergraphs and to me, so that I’m always learning something new, Chromatic Numbers, with Applications to the Bohr too. This quarter I’m teaching a course on graph Topology) in 2003, she accepted a teaching position theory, which is something that I have neither in the Department of Mathematics at California taught nor taken a course in before. When I fin- State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she ished my Ph.D. at Madison, my area of research is currently an assistant professor (and has recent- was topology and set theory. I’ve pretty well left ly applied for tenure). that behind now, and am focusing on algebra and Since moving to California, Berit and her hus- semigroups. band, Mark, have become the parents of two chil- Q: What do you and your family like to do in dren—son Trygve is three, and daughter Annika is your leisure time? eighteen months old. A: With a three-year-old and a one-year-old, we The Givens family stopped by the DARE of- mainly just run around like crazy. The kids love to fices on a recent visit to Madison, and Berit shared read books (Go, Dog. Go! is a favorite). We go for some reminiscences of her days at the Dictionary walks on campus to see the cows and horses—Cal with Beth Gardner. Poly is one of the few agricultural areas left around Q: What initially brought you to DARE? here. We also go to the zoo regularly. F A: I had taken a couple of years off from any sort of volunteer work and felt like I needed to find something to do. When I flipped through the list of volunteer opportunities, DARE caught my I look forward to completing my collection of eye. I had a boyfriend in high school who received DARE. I was class of 1953 [at the University of the first volume as a Christmas gift one year, and Wisconsin–Madison] and proud to say I had classes we had spent many hours leafing through it. I’d with Helen White—in her purple dresses! had no idea up until then that DARE was housed “ at the UW. Emmy Lou Anderson Q: What did you like best about volunteering at Charleston, South Carolina DARE? ” 7 DARE Newsletter Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage Postal Return Address: PAID Dictionary of American Regional English Permit No. 658 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 6125 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St., Madison WI 53706 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED (608) 263-3810 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

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