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tinpraMarch 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace
1948: William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina. He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
Soda, Pop, or Coke? America’s First Dictionary of Dialects
If you’re living in a snowpocalyptic wasteland like the ice planet Hoth, Buffalo, NY, or much of the United States lately, you’ve probably shoveled some snow onto the berm.
Berm?
Oh, excuse me, depending on where you live, you may know that strip of grass between the sidewalk and street by another name, such as boulevard, devil strip, grass plot, neutral ground, parking strip, parkway, terrace, tree belt, or tree lawn.
The language of grass strips is just one of thousands of areas of American life documented in the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), one of the oldest and most ambitious projects in the history of American lexicography.
1948: William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina. He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
Soda, Pop, or Coke? America’s First Dictionary of Dialects
If you’re living in a snowpocalyptic wasteland like the ice planet Hoth, Buffalo, NY, or much of the United States lately, you’ve probably shoveled some snow onto the berm.
Berm?
Oh, excuse me, depending on where you live, you may know that strip of grass between the sidewalk and street by another name, such as boulevard, devil strip, grass plot, neutral ground, parking strip, parkway, terrace, tree belt, or tree lawn.
The language of grass strips is just one of thousands of areas of American life documented in the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), one of the oldest and most ambitious projects in the history of American lexicography.