The Grey Lady reports on the completion of the Dictionary of American Regional English, just in time for the social media-driven de-regionalizing to begin, seems to us. Moreover, vis à vis the accuracy of the Twitter-generated soda/pop/Coke map, linguistic field research indicates cargo-cult usage of "pop" in and around the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York, whereas in the land-locked West Thirdfloorian Republic, in cases where Coke is the specific referent, "St. Jerome's Bugjuice". (Mutually understood in the East Thirdfloorian Republic, but not common usage there.)
Update: Criminals, gypsies, women, food, social diseases...they got it all: the Urban Dictionary of 1811 is up on Gutenberg.
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