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APPLETON — A bluff sitehome to Trinity LutheranChurch and a banquet facilityshould be the home of a new$40million library, a 10-member li-brary board voted Tuesday.

The unanimous vote camedaysafter theconsultant for theproject revealed that the sitescored highest in a study basedon property layout, costs andfeasibility.

John Peterson, president ofthe board,was adamant that thesite selection was not a hostiletakeoverandsaidFoxBanquets& Rivertyme Catering ap-proached the library in 2012about purchasing its property.

“Obviously the sentimentaland spiritual attachment oflongtime members of TrinityLutheran Church would be dis-rupted by this move,” Petersonsaid. “Ihaveabsolutelyno inter-est or intent that the relocationbe in any manner hostile to thechurch or congregation.”

Peterson said the decisionhad less to dowith views out thebuilding to the river, and moreabout aesthetics of a brand newfacility welcoming residentsdowntown at a key gatewayfrom the Oneida SkylineBridge.

With Tuesday’s vote, consult-ants and the city will move for-ward with plans to build the120,700-square-foot project atthe site overlooking the FoxRiver.

However, Appleton’s councilwill hold a crucial vote in No-vember on funding the $40 mil-

Libraryboard callsfor new sitenear riverTrinity LutheranChurch removalplan draws concerns;selection explained

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PPLETON—Linguists aren’t often called upon tosolve crimes, but when a child was abducted in Illinoismore than a decade ago, a handwritten ransom notewas all police had to go on.

“Do you ever want to see your precious little girl again?” thepencil-scrawled message read. “Put $10,000 in cash in a diaperbag. Put it in the green trash kan on the devil strip at cornerof 18th and Carlson. Don’t bring anybody along. No kops!!”

Forensic linguistRogerShuyquicklydismissed themisspellings of “kan” and“kops,” which he determined were theauthor’s attempt tomask his higher lev-el of education since more complicatedwords like “precious” and “diaper”were spelled correctly.

But the phrase “devil strip” caughtShuy’s eye. That term, which describesthe strip of grass between the sidewalk

and the curb—also known as a berm orterrace— is used in only one place: Ak-ron, Ohio. And it just so happened thepolice’s suspect list included an Akronman. When police confronted him, heconfessed to the abduction.

The term “devil’s strip” and its longlistofsynonymscanbefound in theDic-

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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON PROJECTSTARTS WITH ITS BADGER STATE ROOTS

Bob and Shirley Phillips, of Menasha, and their daughter Kathleen Thunes fill out a survey on regional terms from the Dictionary of AmericanRegional English on April 11 in Menasha. ADAMWESLEY/POST-CRESCENT MEDIA

ABOUT DAREThe Dictionary of AmericanRegional English is a six-volumecollection of phrases and expres-sions used across the United States,gathered from 1,000 communitiesduring a 1965 to 1970 survey.In 2012, the dictionary was alsopublished online in an interactiveformat. In late 2013, 50 years afterthe original survey, University ofWisconsin researchers askedWisconsinites to participate in anupdated version of the survey aspart of a pilot project to expandand update the dictionary andbring it into the 21st century.Toparticipate in the DARE survey,visit study.uwsc.wisc.edu/dare.For more information aboutthe project, go towww.dare.wisc.edu. To accessthe dictionary online, visitwww.daredictionary.com.

GREEN BAY — Gov. ScottWalker officially launched hisre-election campaign Tuesdaywith a series of rallies acrossthe state that includeda stop inGreenBay,wherehepromised“hope for the future.”

“Our vision going forwardis pretty simple. We believe inless dependence on the gov-ernment and more depen-dence on common sense, hard

work and personal pride,”Walker said during a briefspeech to about 100 workersand supporters at AceMarine,210 S. Pearl St.

The boat manufacturingcompany was the Republicangovernor’s second-to-last stopof the daywith Lt. Gov. Rebec-ca Kleefisch. They also visitedDane, La Crosse, Chippewa

Walker touts job, tax record in rallyGovernor promiseshope at Green Baycampaign stopBy Adam RodewaldGannett Wisconsin Media

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Gov. Scott Walker announces his bid for re-election at Ace Marine inGreen Bay on Tuesday as his family watches the event.JIM MATTHEWS/GANNETT WISCONSIN MEDIASee GOVERNOR, Page A5

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tionary of American Re-gional English, a projectlaunched in Wisconsin inthe 1940s. Fred Cassidy,an English professor attheUniversity ofWiscon-sin-Madison, wanted tocreate a regional dialectdictionary for the UnitedStates, something thatwas already in the worksin England.

From 1965 to 1970, 80graduate students andprofessors traveled thecountry in vans theydubbed “Word Wagons.”Theysurveyedmore than2,700 natives of 1,000communities about thewords they used in theirdaily lives to describe ev-erything from mayfliesto pancakes.

Editors then compiledthe 2.3 million responsesto the 1,600 survey ques-tions into a dictionary.They got to the letter “Z”in 2012.

But with data that isnow 50 years old, the dic-tionary is missing scoresof entries for moderntechnology, machinesand inventions. Its vocab-ulary is dated, so re-searchers are returningto the field to update andexpand the six-volumedictionary and bring itinto the 21st century. Andthey’re starting, onceagain, in the BadgerState.

Survey goes digitalIn November, Wiscon-

sinites were invited toparticipate in theupdatedsurvey. Instead of send-ing field workers inWordWagons across the coun-try, the dictionary, affec-tionately called DARE,went digital.

“It’sacommonpercep-tion that American Eng-lish has been homoge-nized as we become amo-bile population that readsand listens to the samemedia, but I’m not con-vinced that’s entirelytrue,” said Joan H. Hall,DARE’s chief editor.“Certainly languagechanges, but there arethings we’ve grown upwith—you’renotgoing tostop calling a bubbler abubbler, andyoumight, infact, take pride that noteverybody says that.”

The first time around,researchers targeted anevenly distributed rangeof communities that in-cluded places notable forhistorical events or eth-nic groups. Big citieswith great shifts in popu-lation were avoided. Theprimary focuswasonold-er people, and ideal par-ticipants were lifelongresidents, which provid-ed for more localized re-sponses.

“If you think aboutpeople who were 80 atthat time, they had livedthrough tremendouschanges in our society,”Hall said. “When theywere young, they didn’thave cars or TVs or ra-dios. So they would re-member the terms forold-fashioned farmingand things before electri-fication.”

In Wisconsin, the 22communities surveyed inthe 1960s stretched fromlarger cities like Janes-ville and La Crosse tosmall communities likeBayfield and Jim Falls.

The 2014 update added 29communities to the list,including Milwaukee,Oshkosh and Menasha.Researchers hope to findlifelong residents or peo-ple who have lived in thecommunity for at least 15years, but responsesfrom all age groups willbe accepted.

“We talkedwithpeopleat the appliedpopulationslab at UW and workedwith them to find commu-nities that were repre-sentative of the state interms of geographicaldistribution,” Hall said.“But we also wanted tosample as many kinds ofpopulations as we can,from large cities to vil-lages and rural areas.”

The number of ques-tions has grown from1,600 to 2,600 in 41catego-ries, which include ev-erything from favoritecard games to nicknamesfor the toilet. The goal isto have one completedquestionnaire for eachcommunity before thesurvey ends June 30. Ifthe Wisconsin pilot pro-ject is successful, a na-tionwide reboot couldtake place, Hall said.

Survey evolves intofamily bonding

In a sparsely decorat-ed office in a TouchmarkVillage cottage in theTown of Menasha, Boband Shirley Phillips arechuckling over one of thequestions in thecourtshipsection of the DARE sur-vey.

“Nicknames or affec-tionate names for asweetheart,” reads Shir-ley Phillips, 78. “Well,what do I call you, Bob?”

Their daughter, Kath-leen Thunes, is helpingherparentswork throughvarious sections of theonline survey. The threeare huddled around thecomputer, and they ex-change stories and possi-ble answers for the dif-ferent questions.

“It brings back memo-ries,” Shirley Phillipssays during a break. “Theolder I get, I pop out withthese expressions Ihaven’t used or needed inyears. And it’s fun to dotogether.”

When the familyreaches a question in thefood section about thetypes of biscuits in thearea, she pauses, hover-ing themouseover thean-swer“saleratusbiscuits.”

“My dad used thatword,” she says. “It’s justanother word for baking-powder biscuits.”

She flips through thenext couple of questions,which ask how she pro-nounced the word “syr-up” (rhymeswith fearup?fir up?) and other namesshe has for pancakes.

“Flapjacks are a fam-ily recipe,” Thunes said.“They’re more similar tocrepes.”

Thunes attended ameeting earlier thismonth at the MenashaPublic Library, whereHall discussed the vari-ous uses of DARE and in-vited participants to trythe survey. She said she’salways been interested indialect and linguistics,and figured her parents.longtime residents of thearea, would be ideal sub-jects for the survey.

The variety and rangeof answers for the ques-tions were surprising,Shirley Phillips says.

“We read a lot, and wethink our vocabulary isgeneralized, but maybe itisn’t as general as wethought,” she says. “Buttherearea lot ofdifferentnationalities here.”

Even after 100 years,she says, Little Chute isstill predominatelyDutch; Menasha, mostlyPolish.

“You’d think it wouldhave dissipated,” sheadds.

DARE used inunexpected ways

Forensic linguistsaren’t the only ones whouse DARE to assist withtheir work, Hall said.Physicians have calledwith questions abouttheir patients’ ailments,like getting “jags in theirleaders,” otherwiseknown as pains in theneck.

A University of Chi-cago psychiatrist con-sulted the DARE officeabout strange responsesto the Boston NamingTest, which shows pic-tures of items for the pa-tient to identify to deter-mine if they’re sufferingfrom aphasia, a type oflanguage disorder. South-ernpatients looked at pic-tures of stilts and calledthem “tommy walkers,”

which wasn’t listed in theanswer key.

“We assumed librari-ans would use it, and ofcourse they do,” Hallsaid. “Lawyers use it tofigure out if a work istrademark-able or ifthey’re reading testimo-ny of a person from a dif-ferentpart of thecountry,they look up a word tomake sure the meaningisn’t different in a differ-ent place.”

Others have found val-ue in audio recordings of

participants from theoriginal 1960s survey.

“Dialect coaches andactors use the audio re-cordings, andoral histori-ans love it,” she said.“Folks from indigenouslanguage groups say it’svery useful, because youcan search individual lan-guagesand findall theen-tries that come from Al-gonquin or other lan-guages.”

Diane Keaton studiedthe tapes to perfect herMississippi drawl in the

1986 film “Crimes of theHeart.”

“We sent a variety oftapes of women from thepart of Mississippi shewas interested in for herto listen to,”Hall said. “Tosomeextent,weweresur-prised by how many dif-ferent uses people hadfor DARE.”

Hall said she is lookingforward to evaluating theresponses from the newWisconsin survey andcomparing them to howpeople spoke 50 yearsago.

So far, 115 people haveat least started the sur-vey. Hall hopes that num-ber doubles by the end ofJune.

“Things that were dis-tinctly Wisconsin wordslike ‘golden birthday’ and‘squeaky cheese’ that arecharacteristic of thisstate — we can find outwhether other peoplehave adopted them,” Hallsaid. “And there’s no wayto know unless we do theresearch.”

— Ariel Cheung:920-993-1000,ext. 430, or acheung@postcrescent.com;on Twitter @arielfab

DialectContinued from Page A1

TARGETCOMMUNITIESOriginal: Algoma,Antigo, Bayfield, Bel-mont, Burlington,Florence, Janesville,Jefferson, Jim Falls,Juneau, La Crosse,Lancaster, Manitowoc,Menomonee Falls,Necedah, New Berlin,Pepin, Portage, RiverFalls, Superior, Wash-ington Island andWautoma.New: Argyle, Baraboo,Belgium, Boaz, Chippe-wa Falls, Delavan,Doylestown, Elderon,Elm Grove, Genoa City,Horicon, HowardsGrove, Kewaunee,Linden, Marinette,Menasha, Milwaukee,New Lisbon, Ogdens-burg, Oshkosh, Ply-mouth, Pleasant Prai-rie, Randolph, Rich-field, Richland Center,South Milwaukee,Spooner, WatertownandWebster.

TRY IT OUTTo take a quiz onhow well you knowWisconsin expressionsand to explore a mapof local answers to theoriginal DARE survey,go to this report onpostcrescent.com/DARE.

Shirley Phillips of Menasha and daughter Kathleen Thunes fill out a survey on regionalterms from the Dictionary of American Regional English. ADAMWESLEY/POST-CRESCENT MEDIA

Falls, Schofield and WestAllis to promote their fis-cal policies and job-cre-ation records.

“Four years ago therewere more than 130,000jobswehadlostduringthelast year Gov. (Jim) Doylewas in office. The budgetdeficit — the deficit wasover $3 billion. Thinkaboutthat.Andtaxesweregoing up. The future ofour state looked, well,pretty dull,” Walker said.

“Todaywehavea$1bil-lion budget surplus in-stead of a deficit. Not onlythat … but we’re loweringtaxes.”

Walker also promotedthe creation of more than100,000 jobs since takingoffice three years ago. Hedid not mention his 2010campaign promise to cre-ate 250,000 jobsduringhisfirst term. Walker had re-peatedly said votersshould judge his time inoffice based on his abilityto achieve that goal.

The governor’s termhas been marked by con-troversy. His 2011 mea-sure to restrict collectivebargaining for most pub-lic workers polarized thestate, igniting large pro-tests and an unsuccessfulrecall attempt.

Walker’s opponent,Democrat Mary Burke,responded to the gover-nor’s re-election cam-paign Tuesday saying his“game plan has failed.”

“Under Scott Walker,Wisconsin is falling be-hind. In job creation, weare35th inthecountryandsecond to last amongMid-western states. Worsestill, we are one of theworst in the country innew business starts,” shesaid in a statement.

Burke, a MadisonSchoolBoardmemberandformerTrekBicycleexec-utive, came to Green Bayto announce her candida-cy outside the BrownCounty Courthouse sixmonths ago.

Walker chose to starthis campaign on Tax Day,the April 15 deadline forcompleting tax returns, toemphasize a new cam-paign promise: “To putmoneyback into thehandsof the people who earnedit.”

“I don’t hear peoplesay, ‘Hey, I don’t sendenough money to Madi-son,’” said Walker, whoadded that he’d continuelowering taxes if electedto a second term.

Tuesday was also thefirst day candidates couldbegin circulating pet-itions to get on the ballot.Their paperwork is dueJune 2. The general elec-tion is Nov. 4

Walker came to GreenBay wearing a blue-col-lared shirt and blue jeansandwas joined by hiswifeand two sons as well asKleefisch and her family,state Rep. Joel Kleefischand two daughters.

“Today I’m asking foryour vote again so everyson or daughter, every

grandson and grand-daughter can grow up in astate that’s even betterthan the one we grew upin,” Walker said. “I knowwe’re headed in the rightdirection. I know we’removing forward. Wiscon-

sin is back on.”A poll recently re-

leased by Wisconsin Pub-lic Radio and St. NorbertCollege Strategic Re-search Institute foundthat 97 percent of Repub-licansand53percentof in-

dependents said theywould vote for Walker ifthe election were held to-day.

The random survey,which talked to 401 Wis-consin residents by lan-dlinesandcellphones,was

conducted March 24 toApril 3. It has a margin oferror of 5 percentagepoints.

— Adam Rodewaldwrites for Press-GazetteMedia, Green Bay.

GovernorContinued from Page A1

MENASHA—When voters de-nied a $360,000 elementaryworld language referendum afew weeks ago, their actionsshowed officials they don’t be-

lieve in the program stronglyenough to fund it.

Almost a year ago, parents,students and community mem-bers filled the auditorium atMenasha High School to speakout against eliminating the 20-year-old program. Studentscould learn Japanese, Germanor Spanish from kindergartenthrough high school. Sup-porters said the program setMenasha apart from otherschool districts in the Fox Cit-ies and should be saved.

program, VanderHeyden said.One full-time teacher left earli-er this year and hasn’t been re-placed. That position will beeliminatedaswell, bringing thetotal to 3.5 positions.

While those employeesknew their jobs were in jeopar-dy, VanderHeyden said “it’sstill no less traumatic.”

— Jen Zettel: 920-993-1000,ext. 539, or jzettel@postcrescent.com;on Twitter @jenzettel

the voters we would leave it upto them. We’ll live with the re-sult,” he said.

Some residents have criti-cized the district for holdingthe referendum too close to thehigh school referendum ofApril 2013, District Adminis-trator Chris VanderHeydensaid.

The district will send outpreliminary notices of nonre-newal to three people who cur-rently hold 2.5 positions in theelementary world language

At that time, the schoolboard decided to support K-5world language classes for onemore year using its cash re-serves, with the promise the is-sue would then go to a referen-dum.

School board president JoeLingnofski said he wishes theoutcome of the referendumwould have been different, butfeels theboarddid its jobby lis-tening to residents.

“I personally am disappoint-ed, but again we did promise

World language loss looming in MenashaDistrict will eliminateprogram, teachingpositions after failedreferendumBy Jen ZettelPost-Crescent Media

Year’s first lunar eclipse

The “blood moon” is shown with its reddish shadow during a total lunar eclipse early Tuesday in Appleton. It’s one of fourtotal eclipses that will take place in North America within the next year and a half. See a video on postcrescent.com.ADAMWESLEY/POST-CRESCENT MEDIA

TownofMenashares-ident Jay Schroeder hasabandoned his candida-cy for secretary of stateand will run as a Repub-lican to succeed DeanKaufert as representa-tive of the 55th Assem-bly District.

Schroeder, 52, ran forthe Assembly seat twoyears ago but lost in theprimary election toKaufert, who has servedthe district since 1991.

Schroeder said thepolitical landscapechanged after Kaufertwas elected Neenahmayor and said hewouldn’t seek re-elec-tion to the Assembly.

Since November,Schroeder had beencampaigning to elimi-nate the office of secre-tary of state. While thatremains a long-term

goal, he said he can bemore effective at reduc-ing spending by the of-fice as a lawmaker.

“By running for theLegislature, I will beable to spearhead theinitiative to limit thebudget of this office toreflect theduties it has,”he said.

Schroeder said healso would work to en-sure the Fox Cities getback what they pay instate taxes.

“How much do wesend in gas tax down toMadison that gets spentin Milwaukee?” heasked. “I don’t thinkwe’ve been getting ourfair share.”

Hepreviously servedas a Town of Menashasupervisor and a Meno-monie alderman. Healso has run for countyexecutive,countysuper-visor and school board.

Schroeder will run forKaufert’s Assembly seatPost-Crescent Media