NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY 2 5 NADS (0 H 15.3 O r > VoL 15, No. 3 September 1083 0) Report on our Journals..................... Page 2 (0 Last Call: Nominate a S tudent.................... 2 Seeking a Pacific Secretary..........................3 Nominations and Appointments.................3 The Library of Congress Has an Aid..........3 Calendar of Fall M eetings............................4 Rocky Mountain Region. October........... 4 South Central Region, October...............4 3 South Atlantic Region, October............... 5 Northeast Region Premiere, October ... 6 Midwest Region, November.................. 7 NOTE, Novem ber........................................ 8 ADS Annual Meeting December............. 9 Special Guide to the Big Apple.................11 A Grimm Tale............................................... 13 Acres & Princes: Presidential Address... 15 Our New Books........................... 19 An English Language Exhibit.................. 20 DARE Queries No. 18: Leftover B-Cs . 21 Public Questions, New and O ld ................ 21 Here's Our Constitution............................. 25 And Bylaws...................................................26 Gigantic Sale.................................................28 NADS is sent in January, May and September to all ADS members and subscribers. Send ADS dues ($20 per year), queries and news to the editor and executive secretary, Allan Metcalf, English Department, MacMurray College, Jacksonville. Illinois 62650. Page 2 NADS 15.3 September 1983 PUBLICATIONS COMING, SLOW BUT SURE Publications of the American Dialect Dictionary of New Words and Labov’s Society Nos. 70 and 71, promised to ADS Locating Language in Time and Space, members for 1983, will be coming out later and a Miscellany article on spelling errors by than planned. Estimated publication date James Sledd. for No. 70. Norman Heap's Word List from No. 4, Winter 1983: “The Intensive Prefix Bucks County, Pa., Is January 1984; No. 71, ker-" by F.G. Cassidy, “The Relationship of Raoul Smith’s Jonathan Fisher, Early Gullah and Bahamian” by John Holm. American Linguist a substantial volume, "Origins of Even-Stephen" by T.G. Hahn, will not appear until the latter half of 1984. “Linguistic Survey of the Ottawa Valley" by Both, however, will automatically be sent to Ian Pringle and Enoch Padolsky, 1983 members when published. In linking "Unexpected Byproducts of Fieldwork" by these volumes to 1983 membership, your Roger Shuy, and “Among the New Words” by secretary underestimated the complexities Mary Gray Porter and I. Willis Russell. of production. Our publisher, Alabama LAST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Press, Is giving Its usual efficient attention to manuscripts when we manage to get OF OUTSTANDING STUDENTS them ready. Do you have a promising student, graduate or undergraduate, whose Interest A m erican Speech, meanwhile, remains on In American English should be encouraged? schedule. Vol. 58, No. 2 was sent out at the If so, you can nominate that student before end of July, and No. 3 should go out late next the October 1 postmark deadline for one of month. No. 4 will appear In January — and the three new Presidential Honorary then In 1984 we return to being fully on Memberships In the ADS. to be awarded for schedule. the first time in 1984. To whet your appetite, here Is a partial As of Sept. 1, there were no nominations, menu for those forthcoming Issues; so your candidate might have a good No. 3, Fall 1983: “The Lecturer’s OK" by chance. Just send a letter explaining the Harry Levin and Deborah Gray, “Black and candidate's virtues to ADS president A White Speaking in the Rural South: The Murray Kinloch,, English Dept., Unlv. of New Pronominal System” by Patricia Nichols; Brunswick, Bag Service No. 45555, “Movie Words” by Fred Shapiro; “Informant Fredericton, N.B., E3B 6E5, Canada As Selection In Dialectology” by Michael Linn; authorized by the Executive Council last “A 19 th Century Illinois Dialect” by Charles December, he will make the selections. Fenno; reviews of the Second Barnhart Samples of the student’s work and other supporting materials may be attached. ADDITIONS TO THE DIRECTORY See NADS 14.2 for the latest full directory of Individual ADS members. BENABDI, Linda C., 1413 N. Jefferson St., Arlington, Va. 22205 BENSON, Morton, 219 Myrtle Ave., Havertown, Pa. 19083 (Univ. of Pennsylvania) BREWSTER, Seward B., Edson Drive, Augusta, Maine 04336 CREAMER, Thomas, 6619 Westmoreland Ave., Takoma Park, Md. 20912 GILE, Mrs. W.E., 875 Donner Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 JONES, Nancy N„ Dept, of English, North Lake College, 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving, Tex. 75062 KATO, Kazuo, Iwate Medical Univ., 16-1 Honcho-dori 3-chome, Morioka-shi 020, Japan KLEIN, Richard M., Dept, of Psychology, Adelphi Univ., Garden City, L.I., N.Y. 11530 LEDERER, Susan Marietta, 45 East 74th St., New York, N.Y. 10021 NEUFELDT, Victoria E„ Gage Publishing, 164 Commander Blvd., Agincourt, Ont. MIS 3C7, Canada PERANTEAU, Paul M., John Benjamins North America, One Buttonwood Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 19130 PICKENS, William G., English and Linguistics Dept., Morehouse Coll., 830 Westvlew Dr., Atlanta, Ga. 30314 PICKERING, Stephen, The New York Times, Tenth Floor, 229 West 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036 RICHARDSON, Gina, 3004 Lee Highway, Apt. D-321, Arlington, Va. 22201 SCHIFFRIN, Deborah, Dept, of Linguistics, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. 20057 THOMAS, Irene D., 474 Nyes Place, Laguna Beach, Calif. 92651 September 1983 NADS 15.3 Page 3 PACIFIC SECRETARY SOUGHT NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT Maiy Ritchie Key, Pacific Coast Regional With ADS officers serving two-year terms Secretary, is stepping down from her ADS continuing in 1984, the Nominating position to devote more time to her eye- Committee (Virginia McDavid, chair; Marvin opening studies of vocabulary correspon­ Carmony, Mary Ritchie Key) had only one dence between widely separated languages. nomination to make this year Executive The ADS Executive Council will therefore Council member 1984-86. Their choice is this December be appointing a successor to Thomas Creswell, Chicago State University, the Pacific Coast regional secretaryship, emeritus (author of Usage in Dictionaries encompassing the territory from Vancouver and Dictionaries of Usage, PADS 63-64). to San Diego. A Regional Secretary’s chief Additional nominations may be made assignment is to arrange an annual regional with the signatures of at least ten current meeting, often but not necessarily in members, the nominating petition to reach association with the regional affiliate of the the Executive Secretary by Dec. 15. MLA. Nominations and suggestions will be Elections will take place at the Annual welcome; please send them to ADS Business Meeting Dec. 30. Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf. CRIES, CHANTS. & PITCHES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Come on, folks, find it here: Street Cries, Auction Chants, and Carnival Pitches and happen to be at the Library of Congress, Routines in the Recorded Collections of the however (for example at the 1984 ADS Archive of Folk Culture, 15 full pages from Annual Meeting), you can listen for free. our friends at the Library of Congress, is NEW APPOINTMENTS yours free for the asking. Just write Archive Consulting by U.S. and Canadian mall, of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, and with the advice of the relevant Washington, D.C. 20540 and ask for LC Folk committee chairs and editors, the Executive Archive Finding Aid No. 1, compiled by Council and President have recently made Amanda Daigan. Also available is a Guide to the following appointments: the Collections of Recorded Folk Music and Chair of the Committee on New Words, Folklore in the Library of Congress. Maiy Gray Porter, Univ. of Alabama; vice The Finding Aid lists recordings made chair, I. Willis Russell, Unlvl of Alabama, between 1937 and 1979, in places like emeritus. Charleston and Edlsto Island, S.C.; Shreveport, La.; Murray, Ky.; Pettigrew, Ark.; Vice chair of the Committee on Non- State College, Pa., and Leeds, England. English Dialects, Anthony B. House. Univ. of New Brunswick. It includes street cries: “Get your Journal paper,” "Rag, any old rag," “Now I got shad, Members of the Committee on Usage: ain't you glad,” “Shark’s head don’t need no Dennis Baron, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana; gravy,” “Fresh peanuts is the best of all.” Marvin K.L. Chlng, Memphis State Univ. Barking: “Hey cauliflower cheap today,” Assistant Editor of American Speech “Come on girls a little alive today,” “Come 1983 and 1984-85, replacing Murray on, Vava, juicy oranges.” Klnloch: Charles Clay Doyle. Univ. of Also of interest are the technical Georgia. Editorial Advisory Board of definitions of auction chant, barking, American Speech 1984-86: John Algeo, inside lecture, pitch, and street cry on the Univ. of Georgia; Donna Christian, Center first page of the Finding Aid. for Applied Linguistics; A. Murray Kinloch, Getting copies of the actual recordings is Univ. of New Brunswick; Riley B. Smith, a more expensive proposition. The copying Bloomsburg State Coll. rate is $35 per hour of actual recording time ADS Delegate to the American Council of plus a half hour for setup time, so a 90- Learned Societies 1984-87: John Algeo, minute cassette would cost $70. If you Univ. of Georgia. Page 4 NADS 15.3 September 1963 CALENDAR OF ADS MEETINGS October 20*22: Rocky Mountain and lexicon of standard American English, but with Regional Meeting in association with different semantic rules and applications. RMMLA. American Graduate School of □ "Code-Switching in Cajun French." Jill International Management, Glendale Brody and Janelle Jackson, Louisiana State Campus, Phoenix, Arlz. Univ. As the matrix language within which Cajun Chair: Cordell A. Briggs, Loma Linda Univ., French Is spoken. English has had great Influence Riverside, Calif. Regional secretary: Grant W. upon this Louisiana dialect of French. Work on Smith, Eastern Washington Univ. code-switching has contributed to a typology: 1) situational, 2) metaphorical. 3) conversational 3.1) Papers: Intimate, and 3.2) emblematic. This typology Is □ New Mexico dialects of English. Lynn revised and refined In view of data from switching Beene, Univ.