![]() ![]() ![]() In the lexicographic community, special thanks must go to Frederick Mish (Merriam-Webster) and Robert Burchfield (Oxford English Dictionaries). They were promised that their names would be kept confidential.ĭARE has also benefited greatly from contributions of other individuals. Useful information also came from correspondents all over the United States who wrote in response to articles about DARE and television appearances by the Chief Editor.ĭARE fieldworkers, who generously contributed their time and knowledge. In the early years a reading program was launched in which volunteers marked possible examples of regionalisms in more than two hundred American novels, short stories, plays, and poems. Chief among these are the Gordon Wilson and Joseph Hall collections the Carleton, Hand, Hench, McDavid, Tabbert, and Tamony collections are also of special value. Special compilations, some comprising decades of data collecting, have been contributed to DARE (see Introduction). Willis Russell and later, John Algeo, Richard W. Marckwardt, Thomas Pyles, Allen Walker Read, I. Duckert, Einar Haugen, Hans Kurath, Raven I. Thanks are also due the scholars who acted as members of DARE’s advisory boards: Harold B. Eagleson, Guy Jean Forgue, and Pierre Michel. David Cronon.ĭARE essential support, were A. Officers who deserve special mention are Presidents Fred Harvey Harrington and Robert O’Neil Chancellor Irving Shain and Deans Eric Rude, Robert M. The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as Cooperating Institution, has supported the project steadily from the beginning. Sealts, Peter Tamony, Francis Lee Utley, and Eugene B. Private donors have also provided substantial support: Margaret Bryant, William Card, Audrey R. Mellon Foundation (1978–1984), the Brittingham Foundation (1980–1984), the Evjue Foundation (1980), the Johnson Foundation of Racine (1972), the Gramercy Foundation (1980–1981), and the Marathon Oil Company. ![]() Other assistance has come from the Rockefeller Foundation (1976), the Andrew W. Thereafter, the National Endowment for the Humanities has supported the processing of data and the editing (1971–1984), and the National Science Foundation has also helped materially (1980–1984). Office of Education (1965–1970), paid for the basic fieldwork. DARE has received financial support from both government and nongovernment sources. The project has been helped in countless ways, including financial support, contributions of collections of data, volunteered reading, access granted to many kinds of source materials, and single items of data from every part of the country. We have shared an interest in the English language in America, especially in its regional varieties, which, in the spirit of our national motto, make unity out of diversity. It would be quite impossible to thank by name the hundreds of people from every walk of life who have contributed in one way or another, to one degree or another, to this first volume of DARE. ![]()
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