NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY dje American lialect Society Centennial 1889-1989 NADS 22.3 Vol. 22, No. 3 September 1990 Nominees for ADS Offices........................2 What’ll be Next in American Speech? 2 New in the Dictionary Society.................. 2 NCTE Session, Atlanta, Nov. 17............... 2 ADS Annual Meeting, Chicago.............. 3 Saturday: World Wide, New Words ....4 Sunday: Business, History......................6 Annual Luncheon: DARE I I .............. 3,7 Getting and Spending, 1989....................... 8 Our Individual Selves, 539 All T old........ 9 Regional Meetings This F all....................18 Rocky Mountain, Oct. 18-20................18 South Central, Oct. 25-27..................... 19 Midwest, Nov. 1-3................................. 19 South Atlantic, Nov. 15-17..................20 PADS Is Coming Back..............................21 What New Books We H ave!....................22 Virginia G. McDavid, ADS-D. S............ 23 ADS Legal Session at LSA, Jan. 5 ....... 24 NADS is sent in January, May and Septem­ ber to all ADS members. Send ADS dues ($25 per year), queries and news to editor and executive secretary Allan Metcalf, Eng­ lish Dept., MacMurray College, Jackson­ ville, Illinois 62650, phone (217) 479-7049 or (217) 479-7000, fax (217) 245-5214. Page 2 NADS 22.3 September 1990 Dictionaries Wants Words Nominations for Offices “Papers of the highest seriousness” on lexicogra­ The Nominating Com mittee, con sistingofpast phy are eagerly sought by the newly-elected editor of president Richard W. Bailey, elected member Dictionaries, journal of the Dictionary Society of Lawrence M. Davis, and past president Thomas North America. The journal has just published its Clark, chair, offers the following nominations: 1989 issue (edited by Richard W. Bailey), and has For Vice President 1991-92, succeeding to the only a few reviews on hand for 1990 and beyond. John B augh, presidency in 1993-94, Stanford Write W illiam Chisholm, editor, at DSNA, FT-1214, University. Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH 44115; For member of the Executive Council 1991- telephone (216) 687-4830 (DSNA) or (216) 687-3985 94, C onnie C. E ble, University of North Carolina, (Chisholm’s office). Chapel Hill. The new secretary-treasurer of DSNA is Louis Mmc, For member of the Nominating Committee also of Cleveland State. Dues for DSNA membership 1991-92, Amy J. Devitt, University of Kansas. ($20 per year) may be sent to him at the above address. Additional nominations may be made by a President of DSNA is David Guralnik, editor-in- petition with the signatures of at least ten mem­ chief emeritus of Webster's New World Dictionary, bers, which must reach the-Executive Secretary also in Cleveland. by Dec. 15. Avoteon the nominations will be held Summer Meeting: August 9-11,1991 at the Annual Business Meeting Dec. 30. Next summer DSNA holds its biennial meeting at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Friday through Coming in American Speech Sunday, August 9-11. Local arrangements are under 65.3, Fall 1990 the care of ADS member Donald Lance. For the past “Variation in Discourse: Midwestern Narrative decade ADS has cosponsored the DSNA summer Style,” Barbara Johnstone; “I’m Like, ‘Say What?!’: meeting, and 1991 should be no exception. The A New Quotative in American Oral Narrative,” Carl meeting draws 50 to 75 practicing lexicographers and Blyth Jr., Sigrid Recktenwald, and Jenny Wang; linguists for two or three days of intense lexicophilia, an “Current Generic Pronoun Usage: An Empirical experience not to be missed. Study,” Miriam Watkins Meyers. The next ADS Newsletter will have full details and Among the New Words, John Algeo and Adele a call for papers. Algeo. ADS Session at NCTE Reviews and Miscellany. 65.4, Winter 1990 Saturday, N ovember 17 “Warning Labels: Language, Law, and Compre­ 5:30-6:30 p .m. hensibility,” Roger W. Shuy; “Jurors’ Beliefs About Atlanta Hilton or H yatt R egency A tlanta the Interpretation of Speaking Style,” Marianna Di Special Interest Group SGI 1 at the annual conven­ Paolo and Georgia Green; “Controlling Contexts: tion of the National Council of Teachers of English. Interpretation and Expert Testimony,” George Gopen; Program: The Uses of English Usage. “Variation in Linguists’ Analyses of Author Identifi­ Meeting chair: Dennis Baron, Univ. of Illinois. cation,” Edward Finegan; “Voice Identification in a Associate chair: Allan Metcalf, MacMurray Coll. Criminal Law Context,” Bethany K. Dumas; “MC-: Presenters: E. Ward Gilman, Merriam-Webster; Meaning in the Marketplace,” Genine Lentine and Edward Finegan, Univ. of Southern California; Roger W. Shuy. Geoffrey Nunberg, Xerox-PARC. Among the New Words. Reviews and Index. Advance registration for the NCTE convention is WANTED—lam interested inbuying past editionsof $70 for members, $95 for nonmembers. For information American Speech, especially older issues. Tom Dalzell, write NCTE, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana IL 61801; 1155 Oxford St., Berkeley CA 94707. phone (217) 328-3870. September 1990 NADS 22.3 Page 3 ADS Annual Meeting 1990-Chicago The American Dialect Society enters its 101st year Lunch on the Lake in a suite location—the Barclay Chicago Hotel—with Riddle: What’s called “The Lake Shore Drive” and a delicious program of worldwide scope all day Sat­ has Oriental vegetable soup, chicken Maui with plum urday, Dec. 29 and Sunday morning, Dec. 30. The sauce, vegetable medley with rice, coconut ice cream, program has been enriched since the preliminary an­ beverage, and page proofs of DARE Volume II? The nouncement in the May Newsletter, and as a conse­ 1990 ADS Annual Luncheon, of course, at noon quence many of the events have had to be rescheduled. Sunday, Dec. 30 in the Superior Room of the Barclay See Pages 4 through 7 for details. Hotel Chicago, with ADS president Thomas Creswell Dialects World Wide is the theme for program presiding and announcing the new Presidential Hon­ sessions at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. Then orary Members. Fred Cassidy will bring us up to date comes an overview of Dialects in the United States on DARE. The LSD costs $24, everything included, and a look at New Words of 1990. That night ADS and it’s important to notify the Executive Secretary in offers A World of English at the MLA convention advance if you’d like a place. Alternative meals are two-thirds of a mile away. available if requested in advance. Sunday morning the 30th brings the ADS business Hotel: S tep right down (two steps down from your meeting and six papers, followed by the Annual foyer-kitchen) into your bi-level suite at the Barclay Luncheon (see notice at right). Chicago Hotel, 166 East Superior. It sits at the north New Words of 1990: Help, Please end of St. Clair Street, just off Michigan Avenue. On Saturday, Dec. 29, at 7 p.m. in the St. Clair Three short blocks away is the Water Tower; equally Room of the Barclay Hotel, ADS will make history, or close is the Museum of Contemporary Art, and even at least comment on it, in a new program called New closer is the Terra Museum. Next door on Superior Words of 1990. ADS president T homas Creswell will Street is Benihana of Tokyo, a pizza place, and Nieman moderate; panelists will be John Algeo of “Among Marcus, where the City Market sells groceries which the New Words” and D avid B arnhart of The Barnhart you can prepare in your full kitchen. Dictionary Companion. The media will be invited for (Utensils are provided without charge.) this event. (Who knows whether they will come.) Leave your hair dryer at home! and get Attention, meanwhile, ADS members! Nomina­ blown away by powerful built-in dryers in all suites. tions are called for: The most outrageous word of 1990, The complimentary continental breakfast buffet in the most original or innovative, most amazing, most the private Barclay Club isn’t just styrofoam coffee useful, most unnecessary, most likely to succeed. and a doughnut We’re talking power breakfast, with Nominations may, but need not, be accompanied tablecloths and real dishes and yogurt, fruit juices, by indignant, admiring, awestruck, appreciative, breads, muffins, croissants, cereals, coffee and tea. scornful, philosophical or philological observations. Pick up a complimentary Chicago Tribune, Wall Whenever possible, include a citation, preferably a Street Journal, or USA Today at the front desk. When clipping or xerographic copy with the essential bib­ you go to bed at night, you’ll find a chocolate on your liographical information. Oralcitationsareencouraged, pillow. Complimentary nightly shoeshine too. with as much context as possible, including when, So what does all this cost? For you, just $69 a night, where, and by whom spoken. single or double; extra adults $20 each, children free. If one of your nominations is chosen as Word for Extras include valet parking, about $ 15 a day, and the Year, you will receive a breathtakingly appropri­ the McClurg Court Center health club, $9 a day. ate prize. Winners will be announced at the panel. Don’t wait too long. Already 20 suites have been Send nominations to Algeo at English Dept., Univ. taken by ADS early birds. Call (800) 621-8004, in of Georgia, Athens GA 30602 or Barnhart at Lexik Illinois (312) 787-6000, or fax (312) 787-4331. Ask House, PO Box 247, Cold Spring NY 10516. Today! for American Dialect Society reservations. X___ „ Page 4___________________________ NADS 22.3____________________September 1990 Saturday, December 29: World Wide, U.S., New Words of 1990 ADS Executive Council New Words of 1990 8:00 a.m., Shaw Room, Barclay Hotel 7:00-8:00p.m., St. Clair Room, Barclay Hotel The Executive Council discusses and sets policy Panelists: for the Society and hears reports from editors, com­ • John Algeo, co-chief of "Among the New Words” mittee chairs, and regional secretaries.