Talk:American English regional vocabulary/Archive 1

message: Is "Midland" a specific linguistic term, or is that some strange way of saying "Midwest"? Qqqqqq (talk) 08:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A specific linguistic term.  See Midland American English.  By contrast, "Midwest" has little linguistic significance, since several different dialect areas can be found in what we call "the Midwest," including the Midland and the Inland North.  I'm Jack(Lumber) and I approve this message. 01:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for that explanation. I'll wikilink the first instance of that term's appearance here. Qqqqqq (talk) 02:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midland? 

message: Please be sure to cite reliable, third-party sources for any additions to this page. The presence of large amounts of unsourced materials has been a problem in the past. We appreciate your help in keeping this page free of original research. Cnilep (talk) 22:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your hard work cleaning it up, Cnilep! +Angr 07:56, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources, sources, sources 

message: At long last, the second volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English is being published, at least according to media reports. This may provide a source for additional regional vocabulary. Cnilep (talk) 20:14, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dictionary of American Regional English 

message: I hate to doubt the work of another editor, but I have a question about one bit of sourcing. User:Save wildlife attributes regional definitions of coke and soda to the Dictionary of American Regional English (Cassidy 2002). Unfortunately I don't have a copy at hand right now, but I do know that the dictionary only contains head words beginning with the letters A-SK. I assume that soda will be covered in volume two, due out next year. Sorry if I seem to be casting aspersions, but this page has seen an awful lot of poorly sourced additions in the past. I've commented out the definitions but left them intact, on the theory that Save wildlife or another user might be able to verify them with other sources. Cnilep (talk) 17:50, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Soda', 'Coke' in DARE? 

message: While the suggestion that teeter-totter is widespread accords with my own experience, note that all additions need to be verifiable. That means we need to cite a source for this description. If one can be found, great. Cnilep (talk) 20:08, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teeter-totter 

message: Like "Fridge." I've heard that in every place I've lived.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.75.87.139 (talk) 11:17, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This article just plain sucks. Many of these words are used throughout the United States and the words listed as generic alternatives are laughable. Tennis shoe? Really? Nobody says tennis shoe except to refer to a shoe used to play tennis. Quodfui (talk) 02:27, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have never in my life heard someone refer to a scallion as a "spring onion," no matter where in the country I was living. Viciouslies (talk) 07:52, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some of these words don't seem to just be regional 

message: An editor has marked spider as a New England variant of frying pan as obsolete. The source cited, published in 1971, does not call the term obsolete. Even if use of the word has fallen off in the past forty years, I'm not aware of a consensus definition of the term "obsolete" for Wikipedia. In the absence of one, and given that the source fails to call the word obsolete, I think we should hold off unless and until we cite a current source that does. Other opinions? Cnilep (talk) 07:28, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is "spider" obsolete? 

message: yes I know the importance of references and sure glad I wasted my time updating this page  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Otherbeach (talk • contribs) 17:52, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  wasted my time 

message: While looking for the requested better source, I found that the online OED says "orig. and chiefly U.S." about this word.  The attestations given there are from an Indianapolis newspaper (1911), the American Thesaurus of Slang, Social Text, the Wall Street Journal, and Snowboarding UK.  Maybe not so regional after all?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 07:05, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  pacific northwest: spendy 

message: I just self-reverted a bunch of Pacific Northwest entries because they seem to be specific to loggers and are possibly obsolete.  There doesn't seem to be a way to tell for purposes of this page what to do about that kind of thing.  They're all noted in the 1937 source as being specific to Pacific Northwest loggers.  I just don't know.  Probably you all do?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 07:11, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  obsolescence in general? 

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