Dictionary includes words only a Mainer would use

The University of Wisconsin at Madison earlier this year completed its long-in-the-making Dictionary of American Regional English, or DARE, and the fifth and final volume was released March 1 by Harvard University Press. The dictionary attempts to collect the colorful and varied words used in Americans? everyday lives, across the country, organized by region ? including Maine and New England. The regional variations go far beyond which places call it ?soda? and which places call it ?pop? ? and reveals much about our past and our present.