It started in the 1980s, when Donna Pierite and her family started taking trips to Baton Rouge and New Orleans to photocopy old dictionaries stored away in university archives.
Počelo je 1980-ih, kad su Donna Pierite i njezina obitelj počeli putovati  u Baton Rouge i New Orleans i fotokopirati stare rječnike pohranjene u sveučilišnim arhivima.