Based on data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint.
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William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. is the Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, University of Georgia. He edited the American Linguistic Atlas Project for thirty-four years, which led to his preparation of American pronunciations for the online Oxford English Dictionary.
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