High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE or Dictionary) is a record of American English as spoken in the United States, from its beginnings to the present. It differs from other dictionaries in that it does not record the standard language used throughout the country. Instead, it contains regional and folk speech, those words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one part of the country to another, or that we learn from our families and friends rather than from our teachers and books. For DARE, a "region" may be as small as a city or part of a city, or as large as most (but not all) of the country.