Yup, that's the range of the alphabet covered in the last volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English.
Joan Hall, who's leading the charge on to Z, has an excellent piece in the new Newsweek, which you can read here. She alludes at the end to the already-anticipated electronic version.
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
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