Word: homeborn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wisconsin, he began putting together a team of more than 100 fieldworkers and editors for his dictionary as long ago as 1963. Building on a trove of 40,000 folk words donated by the American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team...
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