Regional Notes Index. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. This Dictionary contains hundreds of words and meanings whose occurrence is restricted to certain areas of the United States. While many of these terms are not used in Standard contexts, they give our language much of its vitality and character.
Many entries contain Regional Notes explaining in detail a point of dialect.
For example, the word dragonfly is widespread in American English, but dialect terms for the insect abound. These dialect terms, listed at the entry for dragonfly, are discussed in the Regional Note at the end of that entry. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.