The Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English Presents Sheep Storm

Abstract

Most of the data for the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English - a modest addition to the growing stock of regional compendiums across the continent - are now in. At the APLA conference, the author affixed to an assigned wall of Memorial University different pieces of this data pertaining to one word. The information available on the word sheep storm gave some idea of what the dictionary's files contain in general. The displayed cards and charts on the wall, of different sizes and colours, were the total paper: questionnaires, statistics from fieldwork, evidence from other dictionaries, citations from P.E.I. writings, comments from informants, and comments from independent observers. This display has been reduced herein to a more or less standard presentation. However, the above background is necessary if the reader is to excuse the paper’s format and tone.