biography
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Cassidy, Frederic G(omes)
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| lived:
| (1907–2000)
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| biography:
| Linguist and lexicographer, born in Kingston, Jamaica. After emigrating to the USA with his family in 1919, he attended Oberlin College and the University of Michigan (1938 PhD), and in 1939 began a long teaching career at the University of Wisconsin. An authority on Jamaican English and pidgin and creole languages, he also served as a fieldworker for the Linguistic Atlas of the US survey. In 1962 he was appointed editor of the American Dialect Society's dictionary project, which resulted in the monumental and ongoing Dictionary of American Regional English (Vol 1, A–C, 1985; Vol 2, D–H, 1991; Vol 3, I–O, 1996). He was also the editor (with R B LePage) of Dictionary of Jamaican English (revised 1980). |
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