NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY 5o 3 c-l g M > 8 Op CTOs (0B O *3 g CD NADS s S D O<r+- CD n »3 e-Hs BO 3 S'S' | 13.1 C/o2.^ cS + ct> bo G5 CD o Vol. 13, No. 1 January 1981 Directory of Officers 1 9 8 1 ...................Page 2 Calls for Papers: Annual Meeting, New York, Dec............. 3 NCTE Meeting, Boston, November . 3 Summer Meeting, Cincinnati, June . 3 Volunteer for an ADS Committee..............4 Calls for Papers: Regional Meetings .... 5 Call for Papers: Methods IV, J u ly ............6 Dues Going Up, But Not This Year .... 7 Yes, PADS Will Be Back Pretty Soon . 7 There’s a Name for This Meeting............... 8 Inside the Executive Council....................... 8 The Proverbial Report for 1980 ............... 11 ADS’ Action-Packed 1980 Meeting .... 12 Search for Recordings on Language . 14 New Feature: New Books by Members .14 Our Connection with ACLS...................... 15 New Year, New Queries from DARE . 16 NADS appears thrice yearly and is sent to all ADS members and subscribers. The next issue is intended for May 1981. Send ADS dues ($15 for 1981), queries, and news to the editor and executive secretary, Allan Metcalf, English Department, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650. Page 2 NADS 13.1 January 1981 ADS OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FOR 1981 President: Marvin Carmony Vice A. Murray Kinloch College of Arts and Sciences President: English Department Indiana State University University of New Brunswick Terre Haute, Ind. 47809 Bag Service No. 45555 (812) 232-6311, ext. 2971 Fredericton, N.B. E3B 6E5 Past Virginia McDavid CANADA President: English Department (506) 453-4675 Chicago State University ACLS Frederic G. Cassidy 95th St. at King Drive Delegate: DARE Chicago, 111. 60628 6125 Helen White Hall (312) 995-2337 University of Wisconsin Madison, Wis. 53706 (608) 263-3810 Executive Council, Members at Large: 1981: James Hartman 1979-82: Juanita Williamson English Department Le Moyne-Owen College University of Kansas Memphis, Tenn. 38126 Lawrence, Kan. 66045 (901) 774-9090 (913) 864-3448 1981-84: Bethany K. Dumas 1980-83: Richard W. Bailey English Department Dept, of English Language and University of Tennessee Literature Knoxville, Tenn. 37916 University of Michigan (615) 974-5492 or 974-5401 Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109 (313) 764-6354 Executive Allan Metcalf Editor, American Speech (through 1981): Secretary English Department John Algeo and MacMurray College English Department Editor, Jacksonville, 111. 62650 University of Georgia NADS: (217) 245-6151, ext. 284 Athens, Ga. 30602 (404) 542-1261 Editor, James Hartman (see above) Editor, American Speech (starting 1981): PADS: Ronald R. Butters 322 Allen Building Duke University Durham, N.C. 27706 (919) 684-2741 Nominating Committee 1981: Chair: John Algeo (see above) Elected Thomas L. Clark Member: Virginia McDavid (see above) Member: English Department University of Nevada 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nev. 89154 (702) 739-3473 or 739-3533 The Nominating Committee has a Sept. 27 deadline for proposing a Member of the Executive Council 1982-85. January 1981______________________ NADS 13.1____________________________ Page 3 CALL FOR PAPERS: ANNUAL MEETING, NEW YORK, NEW YORK For 1981 ADS will continue its ancient (well, since 1889) tradition of holding the Annual Meeting at the Annual Convention of the Modem Language Association. This year that means Manhattan, some time between the 27th and 30th of December (we’ve asked for the latter days). April 15 is the deadline for sending abstracts of proposed papers to our program chair, Vice President Murray Kinloch. His address appears on the opposite page. Kinloch mentions that mail delivery across the border sometimes can be slow — so you’re encouraged not to wait till the last minute. Why not write him right now? CALL FOR PAPERS: NOVEMBER IN BOSTON, WITH NCTE As usual, ADS this year will co-sponsor a session at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English. The 1981 meeting will be in Boston; our session will be on Saturday or Sunday, November 21 or 22. There should be time for three papers. ADS Vice President Murray Kinloch will chair the session, and ADS Past President Virginia McDavid will be vice chair. But in this case abstracts of proposed papers should be sent to ADS President Marvin Carmony. His address appears on the opposite page. Deadline for abstracts is March 15. CALL FOR PAPERS: SUMMER MEETING, WITH DICTIONARIES In recent years the ADS has had the habit of holding summer meetings at the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. That won’t be possible this year; the LSA has decided not to hold an Institute in 1981 (though it will resume in 1982). So for 1981 the ADS Executive Council has authorized the experiment of meeting with our friends the lexicographies. That is, we hope to associate with the Dictionary Society of North America, which holds its third biennial meeting in Cincinnati on Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12. Exact arrangements remain to be made, but we expect to schedule three or four papers in one ADS-sponsored session before or after the several sessions of the DSNA. April 1 is the deadline for proposing papers for our session. Send abstracts to our program chair. Past President Virginia McDavid. Her address appears on the opposite page. What exactly is the DSNA? It was introduced to NADS readers in issue 10.2 for May 1978 (p. 15). But we have an up-to-date explanation from ADS member and DSNA newsletter editor Edward Gates: “The DSNA was formed at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, in 1975 during a conference here on research in the history of English dictionaries. Its aim is to foster scholarly and professional activities relating to dictionaries. We hold regular meetings every other year (1977, 1979, 1981), and publish a semiannual newsletter and an annual journal (of which the first issue appeared last spring). A special meeting was held in conjunction with the LSA 1978 Summer Institute (at which Ladislav Zgusta conducted a concomitant NEH Seminar in lexicography). We have published one volume of proceedings (of conferences held here in 1971 and 1975) and have two more in the works (1977, 1979). We hope to publish other works in lexicography as funds allow. We have about 150 members — academics who are working on dictionary projects, or who research dictionary making or history; staff members of commercial dictionaries; translators, cryptanalysts, or computer scientists concerned with dictionaries; collectors and rare book librarians; and people just interested in dictionaries.” Page 4 NADS 13.1 January 1981 MORE ABOUT OUR CONNECTION WITH THE DICTIONARY SOCIETY DSNA’s affinity with ADS may be gleaned from the announcement of Volume 1 (1979) of its journal Dictionaries, published last summer under the editorship of ADS Council member Richard Bailey. Among the ten papers in that volume are “DARE: The View from the Letter F” by ADS member Joan Hall, “Riding Point on the Lexicon of the North American West” by ADS member Thomas Toon, and “A Survey of the Teaching of Lexicography” by ADS member Edward Gates. Copies are available at $9 from DSNA secretary-treasurer Donald Hobar, Continuing Education, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Ind. 47809. Checks should be payable to Indiana State University. As for the DSNA itself — regular membership is $10, and there are also special joint, student, retired, and institutional rates. Write Hobar for details. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: NEW WORDS, REGIONALISMS, NON-ENGLISH, USAGE Aficionados of the ADS Constitution (last printed in NADS 12.1, April 1980, pp. 10-12) will know that the Society has five standing research committees. Old-timers, and browsers through old PADSes and NADSes, may remember all five. But anyone else may be pardoned for thinking we have only one or two. At last count, one committee remains publicly active; another, relatively dormant, is ready to become visible again; but the three others seem to have vanished. The time has come to revive them, or to send them to the happy hunting ground. The Executive Council has chosen the former alternative. These are the extant committees: 1. Proverbial Sayings, chaired by Margaret Bryant, remains tried and true. See its report in this issue, p. 11. 2. New Words, absent from these pages for a number of years, now seeks new volunteers. The volunteers would send in a minimum of 350 citations each year, checking the citations against certain references, to augment those collected by I. Willis Russell and Mary Gray for “Among the New Words” in American Speech. Those who would be willing to provide citations in this manner are invited to write for particulars to the chairman: j wmis Russeu Rt. 3, Box 582 Cottondale, Ala. 35453 Volunteers are even more urgently needed for the other three committees, which seem to have become completely inactive. A principal function of all three is to report on research — producing an essay on the “year’s work in dialect studies” for the area of their particular concern. The committees may also encourage or undertake special projects. These are the committees that need reconstituting: 3. Regionalisms and Linguistic Geography. Its most recent survey of research, for 1977, appeared in NADS 10.3 (October 1978), pp. 8-11. 4. Non-English Dialects. This committee’s concern is the second part of the ADS’ purpose as stated in the Constitution: “ . the study of the English language in North America, together with other languages or dialects of other languages influencing it or influenced by it.” 5. Usage. If you might be willing to work on one of these committees, or if you know of January 1981 NADS 13.1 Page 5 someone else who might, please notify Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf (address on p.