where only the question number is cited, a reader can refer to the front matter. The categories are listed below: Time Weather Topography Houses Furniture Utensils Dishes Foods Vegetables and Fruit Domestic Animals Farm Animals Farming Farm Buildings Vehicles and Transportation Boats and Sailing Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife Birds Insects Wildflowers, Weeds Trees, Bushes, etc. Buying and Selling, Money Honesty and Dishonesty Clothing, Men's and Women's Parts of the Body Physical Actions Family Relationships Courtship, Marriage, Childbearing Health and Disease Religion and Beliefs Tobacco, Liquor Children's Games Entertainments and Celebrations Emotional States and Attitudes Types and Attitudes of People Relationships among People Schoolgoing, Mental Actions Manner of Action or Being Size, Quantity and Number Position Exclamations Verbs Forms (these are scattered throughout the questionnaire) Audiotape recordings In addition to responding to the DARE questionnaire, informants were invited to make audiotape recordings in which they both read a set passage and conversed informally about any topic of their choice. The use of the reading passage, a contrived story called "Arthur the Rat" that was designed to elicit all significant pronunciation variants in American English, allows comparison of sounds in the same context from places all across the country. The use of free conversation elicited the introduction of topics not covered in the questionnaire, resulting in a corpus of informal speech that can be contrasted to the formal style of the reading passage. It also provides an extremely valuable oral history of mid-20th-century America. In all, 1,843 DARE informants agreed to make audiotape recordings. They are noted in the "List of Informants" in the front matter to Volume I of DARE, in the last column, marked "Audiotape." In a project with the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, and the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Center, DARE has made its collection of readings of "Arthur the Rat" available for listeners. (This collaborative project was funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.) These recordings have been posted at "American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices" website. In addition, samples of informal conversation from the DARE audiotapes may be heard at "American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online" website. Additional excerpts will be added as time permits. New research In order to determine how vocabulary use has changed since the original fieldwork was done, DARE staff in 2013 undertook a pilot survey in Wisconsin ("2013–14