Dictionary of American English

A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (DAE) is a dictionary of terms appearing in American English published by the University of Chicago Press and funded by the University of Chicago. Preview fascicles were published starting in 1936, which were later compiled into full volumes. The four volumes were published from 1938 to 1944. It is not a general dictionary of English, but rather focuses on words that either A) originated in English-speaking America, either in colonial times or after the independence of the United States; B) were used more or differently in the United States than elsewhere; or C) possessed a strong connection with the history of the United States. It was intended to be something of an American equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary for British English.