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Publish Dictionary Of African American English Paul Marotta/ GETTY IMAGES Publish Dictionary Of African American English Oxford University Press and Harvard University are collaborating to create the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE). Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and American Research, will provide editorial guidance to Oxford because it develops a dictionary dedicated to African American Vernacular English (AAVE). “African American English has had a profound impact on the world’s most generally spoken language, yet much of it has been obscured,” Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Languages at Oxford University Press said in a written statement. “The ODAAE seeks to acknowledge this contribution more fully and formally and, in doing so, create a strong tool for a...