Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

Do more listening than talking

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.