American Speech, Vol. 75, No. 3, Fall 2000 Copyright © 2000 by the American Dialect Society that I should be the editor. Iâd like to help it start, to make sure that it gets away from the professorial formalism of the available existing journals. Iâd not like to see its circle of readers and its sphere of usefulness narrowed. There are enough of the formal kind of philological journals, dealing mainly with the past, already.â Mencken and Pound enlisted the aid of Kemp Malone at Johns Hopkins and of Arthur Kennedy, Poundâs former student, at Stanford. In the fall of 1925 American Speech became a reality. The three of them served as the Board of Editors for seven years, putting out 12 issues a year for the ï¬rst two years and 6 issues a year for the next ï¬ve. American Speech appeared less than a year after the formation of the Linguistic Society of America and its journal, Language. In his essay in the inaugural issue of Language, âWhy a Linguistic Society?â (1925) Leonard Bloomï¬eld listed areas in need of study, including American English, âof which we only know that, both as to dialects and as to distribution
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