Regional label. Whenever possible, regional information is given for individual
quotations. In this example, the reader finds that the story quoted was
set in Massachusetts. The term "regional" in DARE refers to words
and phrases whose forms or meanings are not used throughout the United
States but only in a part or parts of the country; the term is also broadly
used to include those words used more frequently by a particular social
group (e.g., older speakers, Black speakers, women, rural people) than
would be expected based on demographics; and it includes words that are
"folk" in origin--that is, those that are learned from family and friends
rather than teachers and books. For a full discussion of DARE's
criteria for inclusion and exclusion, see pp. xvi-xviii in Volume I.
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