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Appendix D: Glossary of Abbreviations, Selected Names, and Terms Found in the Collection
Interviewers and recordists were usually identified by initials or other abbreviations on the discs or disc sleeves. Persons writing comments on the disc sleeves also identified themselves with initials. Information about the recording situation written by the recordist was sometimes included in these notes, often in abbreviated form. The following list includes these abbreviations and their meaning when known. In addition, some abbreviations and terminology used in the collection materials and in articles about the collection are listed here.
- A. C. - Alternating current (type of current used to make the recording)
- ADS Collection - The American Dialect Society Collection
- AFC - American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- A. H. - Archibald Hill, fieldworker
- A. R. M. (or ARM) - probably a recordist (see AFS 25057-25077, 25080, 25096, 25098, 25100-25108
- B. B. - Bernard Bloch, fieldworker and Assistant Editor for LANE
- CAE - Center for American English
- CAL - Center for Applied Linguistics
- c. m. - condenser microphone or carbon microphone? Probably not a person's initials. Found on discs AFS 25077, 25080, where ARM is the recordist. So "c.m." is probably a technical note, not initials
- Caffee - Unknown recordist; this may be Nathaniel M. Caffee (Nathaniel Montier Caffee), who published articles in American Speech
- DARE - Dictionary of American Regional English
- D. C. - Direct current (type of current used to make the recording)
- Diamond - recording needle type
- G. L. (or GL) - Guy S. Lowman Jr., fieldworker
- Garwick - Walter C. Garwick, a collector
- "Hanley discs (or disks)" - frequently used to refer to all the discs in the American Dialect Society Collection, or sometimes just to the disc copies which Miles Hanley retained for research
- "Hanley tapes" - tape copies of Miles Hanley's disc copies of the American Dialect Society Collection made by Frederic Cassidy in 1972 (now housed at the Center for American English).
- Hard - may refer to type of microphone, or type of disc
- HY - Miles L. Hanley, fieldworker and associate editor of LANE
- H. K. (or HK) - Hans Kurath, editor of LANE
- J. D. - Unknown interviewer and/or recordist [possibly Jane E. Daddow, a student of Hans Kurath]
- LANE - Linguistic Atlas of New England
- M/B/RS - Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound division, Library of Congress
- M. C. (or MC) - Marguerite Chapallaz, fieldworker.
- "Platters" - Raven I. McDavid's term for the aluminum recording discs, used by others connected with the collection. This term is found in the collection correspondence, and presentation events materials.
- R. L. S. (or RLS) - Robert L. Stone, recordist
- Sapphire - recording needle type
- "Saturnalia" - Raven I. McDavid used this term for any winter festivities. In particular, he used it to refer to the American Dialect Society meetings and to the events surrounding the presentation of the collection to the Library of Congress. This term is found in the collection correspondence.
- Soft - may refer to type of microphone, type of disc, or disc treatment.