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American Speech is a quarterly academic journal of the American Dialect Society, established in 1925 and currently published by Duke University Press. It focuses primarily on the English language used in the Western Hemisphere, but also publishes contributions on other varieties of English, outside influences on the language, and linguistics theory. American Speech, Duke University Press. Accessed February 21, 2008.
The current editor is Thomas Purnell (University of Wisconsin–Madison).
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Lingua Franca considers it a "consistently reliable peer-reviewed source of information" and states that "though it is scholarly and research based, there’s a surprising amount of information that is intelligible to anyone, even without special training in linguistics."
According to Mencken:
It became the official journal of the American Dialect Society in 1970.
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