Address Service Requested From: FIRST CLASS NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY Jacksonville, Illinois 62650-2590 MacMurray College English Department Allan Metcalf, Executive Secretary AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY NADS 31.1 Vol. 31, No. 1 January 1999 2 • Calls for Regional Meetings 3 • 2000 Annual Meeting 4 • Prefix of the Year 1998 5 • Nominations Invited 6 • What the Council Did 7 • New Books by ADS Members 8 • Looking Back a Century 9 • Looking Back 50 Years 10 • T-Shirt of the ADS 11 • Tamony Talk: Preston 11 • Billing Address at Duke 12 • DARE Queries No. 45 NADS is sent in January, May and Sep- tember to all ADS members. Send news and queries to editor and executive secretary Allan Metcalf, English Department, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650, phone (217) 479-7117 or (217) 243- 3403, e-mail
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