Whitey Ford
01-10-2024, 01:46 AM
First Black American dictionary to publish next year
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In July 2022, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, took to X, the social media platform then known as Twitter, to reveal his latest undertaking. He would serve as editor-in-chief of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE), a research project requiring three years to complete.
When the ODAAE is completed in 2025, as projected, it will provide definitions of words that have so far been excluded from the Oxford English Dictionary. But perhaps more importantly, it will illustrate the way African American English has influenced the development of the English language, particularly in this century and the last.
African American English has been the source of terms that everyone in the United States has been using for years in regular conversation, often without realizing their origins. The ODAAE will seek to rectify that. You’ve already been saying something is “cool” or a “cakewalk” for years without knowing the origin of those terms, but the new dictionary will both make these terms official and draw connections to their history.
Compiling the Oxford Dictionary of African American English is still in progress and anyone who wishes can contribute to it through its Word Suggestion Form or become otherwise involved through its Comments and Crowdsourcing Form. Like language itself, this dictionary is an evolving undertaking, and it will benefit from the input of today’s African American English speakers.
The projected release date of the full ODAAE is March 2025. In the meantime, ten of the entries have been released to the public, and the New York Times published those flagship entries in May 23, 2023. According to Professor Gates, these entries will also be introduced into the word bank of the Oxford English Dictionary.
https://mediafeed.org/first-black-american-dictionary-to-publish-next-year/
https://i.imgur.com/3VWcRq7.jpg
In July 2022, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, took to X, the social media platform then known as Twitter, to reveal his latest undertaking. He would serve as editor-in-chief of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE), a research project requiring three years to complete.
When the ODAAE is completed in 2025, as projected, it will provide definitions of words that have so far been excluded from the Oxford English Dictionary. But perhaps more importantly, it will illustrate the way African American English has influenced the development of the English language, particularly in this century and the last.
African American English has been the source of terms that everyone in the United States has been using for years in regular conversation, often without realizing their origins. The ODAAE will seek to rectify that. You’ve already been saying something is “cool” or a “cakewalk” for years without knowing the origin of those terms, but the new dictionary will both make these terms official and draw connections to their history.
Compiling the Oxford Dictionary of African American English is still in progress and anyone who wishes can contribute to it through its Word Suggestion Form or become otherwise involved through its Comments and Crowdsourcing Form. Like language itself, this dictionary is an evolving undertaking, and it will benefit from the input of today’s African American English speakers.
The projected release date of the full ODAAE is March 2025. In the meantime, ten of the entries have been released to the public, and the New York Times published those flagship entries in May 23, 2023. According to Professor Gates, these entries will also be introduced into the word bank of the Oxford English Dictionary.
https://mediafeed.org/first-black-american-dictionary-to-publish-next-year/