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Biography:
Frederic G. Cassidy was a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English from 1962 to his death in 2000. Born in Kingston, Jamaica on October 10, 1907, Cassidy moved to the United States in 1918. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1930 and obtained a master's degree in 1932. By 1938, Cassidy had earned his doctoral degree at the University of Michigan, and had married Hélène Lucille Monod, a fellow student.
In 1939, Cassidy accepted a lectureship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and was made full professor in 1950. His first book, published in 1947, was entitled The Place Names of Dane County, Wisconsin. Cassidy then joined with Albert H. Marckwardt to produce the second edition of the Scribner Handbook of English, which was published in 1954. These works were followed in 1961 by a book recording the popular speech of Cassidy's birthplace titled Jamaica Talk and by the Dictionary of Jamaican English, co-edited with Robert B. LePage, in 1967.
Cassidy started as Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English in 1962, and saw Volume I (covering A-C) published by Harvard University Press in 1985. Volume II, covering letters D-H, followed in 1991 and Volume III (I-O) was published in 1996. Since Cassidy's death on June 14, 2000, Joan Houston Hall has carried on Cassidy's work as Chief Editor of what has come to be known as the DARE project. Volume IV, covering P-Sk, came out in 2002, and Volume V was published in 2012. A supplementary volume (including the bibliography, a cumulative index to the regional, usage, and etymological labels used in DARE, and sets of contrastive maps) and an electronic edition will round out the project at an unspecified future date.
Works by Frederic Cassidy:
Frederic G. Cassidy was a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English from 1962 to his death in 2000. Born in Kingston, Jamaica on October 10, 1907, Cassidy moved to the United States in 1918. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1930 and obtained a master's degree in 1932. By 1938, Cassidy had earned his doctoral degree at the University of Michigan, and had married Hélène Lucille Monod, a fellow student.
In 1939, Cassidy accepted a lectureship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and was made full professor in 1950. His first book, published in 1947, was entitled The Place Names of Dane County, Wisconsin. Cassidy then joined with Albert H. Marckwardt to produce the second edition of the Scribner Handbook of English, which was published in 1954. These works were followed in 1961 by a book recording the popular speech of Cassidy's birthplace titled Jamaica Talk and by the Dictionary of Jamaican English, co-edited with Robert B. LePage, in 1967.
Cassidy started as Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English in 1962, and saw Volume I (covering A-C) published by Harvard University Press in 1985. Volume II, covering letters D-H, followed in 1991 and Volume III (I-O) was published in 1996. Since Cassidy's death on June 14, 2000, Joan Houston Hall has carried on Cassidy's work as Chief Editor of what has come to be known as the DARE project. Volume IV, covering P-Sk, came out in 2002, and Volume V was published in 2012. A supplementary volume (including the bibliography, a cumulative index to the regional, usage, and etymological labels used in DARE, and sets of contrastive maps) and an electronic edition will round out the project at an unspecified future date.
Works by Frederic Cassidy:
- Scribner Handbook of English (editor)
- The Place Names of Dane County, Wisconsin
- Dictionary of American Regional English (editor)
- Dictionary of Jamaican English (editor)
- Jamaica Talk
