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101 American English idioms


Collis, Harry.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007. 2007

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American dialect research



Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993. 1993

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American English.


Marckwardt, Albert Henry, 1903-1975.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1958. 1958

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American English


Wolfram, Walt, 1941- author.
Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016. 2016

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American English grammar; the grammatical structure of present-day American English with especial re


Fries, Charles C. (Charles Carpenter), 1887-1967
New York, London, D. Appleton-Century [c1940] 1940

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An American glossary; being an attempt to illustrate certain Americanisms upon historical principles


Thornton, Richard H. (Richard Hopwood), 1845-1925.
New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1962] 1962

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An American glossary being an attempt to illustrate certain Americanisms upon historical principles


Thornton, Richard H. (Richard Hopwood), 1845-1925.
London : Francis, 1912. 1970

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The American heritage college dictionary



Houghton Mifflin Co., c1993.  

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The American language; a preliminary inquiry into the development of English in the United States.


Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
New York, A.A. Knopf, 1919. 1919

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The American language ; an inquiry into the development of English in the United States


Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
New York, N.Y. : A.A. Knopf, 1936. 1936

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American regional dialects : a word geography


Carver, Craig M., 1947-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1987. 1987

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American talk : where our words come from


Dillard, J. L. (Joey Lee), 1924-
New York : Random House, c1976. 1976

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The American thesaurus of slang; a complete reference book of colloquial speech,


Berrey, Lester V., 1907-
New York, Crowell [1953] 1953

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The American way of spelling : the structure and origins of American English orthography


Venezky, Richard L.
New York : Guilford Press, c1999. 1999

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Americanisms; a dictionary of selected Americanisms on historical principles,



Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966] 1966

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Americanisms; the English of the New world.


Schele De Vere, Maximilian, 1820-1898.
New York, C. Scribner & company, 1872. 1872

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Amglish in, like, ten easy lessons a celebration of the new world lingo


Rowse, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward)
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, 2011. 2011

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The atlas of North American English phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference


Labov, William.
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006. 2006

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A browser's dictionary, and native's guide to the unknown American language


Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, c1980. 1980

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Current American usage


Bryant, Margaret M., 1900-1993.
New York, N.Y. : Funk & Wagnalls, c1962. 1962

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Cursing in America a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the s


Jay, Timothy.
Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992. 1992

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Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twen


Ostler, Rosemarie.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 2003

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A dictionary of American-English usage, based on Fowler's Modern English usage.


Nicholson, Margaret.
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1957. 1957

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Dictionary of American slang


Wentworth, Harold, 1904-1965.
New York, N.Y. : Crowell, c1975. 1975

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A Dictionary of Americanisms on historical principles



Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [1951] 1951

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A dictionary of contemporary American usage,


Evans, Bergen, 1904-1978.
New York, Random House [1957] 1957

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A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and c


Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979
New York : Macmillan, c1984. 1984

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A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and c


Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979
New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, c1967. 1967

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Do you speak American?


MacNeil, Robert, 1931-
Orlando : Harcourt, 2005. 2005

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Do you speak American? : a companion to the PBS television series


MacNeil, Robert, 1931-
New York, N.Y. : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2005. 2005

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The Doubleday Roget's thesaurus in dictionary form



Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977. 1977

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The emergence of Black English text and commentary



Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991. 1991

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Focus on the USA



Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1996. 1996

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From skedaddle to selfie : words of the generations


Metcalf, Allan A., author.
New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] 2016

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How we talk : American regional English today


Metcalf, Allan A.
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2000. 2000

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How we talk American regional English today


Metcalf, Allan A.
Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, c2000 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.) 2012

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I hear America talking : an illustrated history of American words and phrases


Flexner, Stuart Berg.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1979. 1979

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An introduction to the phonetics of American English


Thomas, Charles Kenneth.
New York, N.Y. : Ronald Press Co., [1947] 1947

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Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas : in honor of John V. Singler



Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 2017

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Never enough words : how Americans invented expressions as ingenious, ornery, and colorful as themse


McQuain, Jeff, 1955-
New York : Random House, 1999. 1999

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OK the improbable story of America's greatest word


Metcalf, Allan A.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010

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A pronouncing dictionary of American English


Kenyon, John Samuel, 1874-1959.
Springfield, Mass. : G. & C. Merriam Co., c1953. 1953

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Pronunciation, a practical guide to American Standards,


Larsen, Thorleif.
London, New York [etc.] Oxford university press, 1930. 1930

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Slang & sociability in-group language among college students


Eble, Connie C.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996. 1996

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Sociocultural and historical contexts of African American English



Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001. 2001

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Speaking American a history of English in the United States


Bailey, Richard W.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012

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Speaking freely : a guided tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley


Flexner, Stuart Berg.
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1997. 1997

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Strictly speaking : will America be the death of English?


Newman, Edwin.
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1974] 1974

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A teacher's introduction to African American English : what a writing teacher should know


Redd, Teresa M.
Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2005. 2005

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Thomas Jefferson : the apostle of Americanism


Chinard, Gilbert, 1881-1972.
[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1929. 1929

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