The Society will meet on Friday, 27 April at 4 pm, for "a discussion of American regionalisms, as recorded by the Dictionary of American Regional English, as well as neologisms and various aspects of 21st-century usage, particularly as influenced by the Internet." Speaking will be John McWorter (of the Manhattan Institute, Columbia University, and The New Republic) and DSNA members Ben Zimmer (of the Visual Thesaurus and The Boston Globe) and lexicographer David K. Barnhart (The Barnhart Dictionary Companion). For more information and to register, visit this link to the Lexicography Society.
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