Alternative, Not Alternative

MICHAEL ADAMS is provost professor of English at Indiana University at Bloom-ington and president of the American Dialect Society. His most recent book is In Praise of Profanity (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016), and he has contributed the chapter “Regional Varieties of English” to John Considine’s forthcoming Cambridge World History of Lexicography (online 2019, print 2020). Email: adamsmp@indiana.edu.