Dictionary of American English

The first volume appeared in 1936 under the editorship of Craigie and James R. Hulbert,[4] a professor of English at the University of Chicago.

The four volume edition was completed with the help of George Watson and Allen Walker Read.

The group referenced early literature depicting American regional accents, including three novels by John Neal: Brother Jonathan (1825), Rachel Dyer (1828), and The Down-Easters, &c. &c. &c.

[5] The work was one of the sources for the Dictionary of Americanisms, c. 1952, prepared under the direction of Mitford Mathews.

A similar, but unrelated modern work, the Dictionary of American Regional English, has been compiled to show dialect variation.