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American talk : where our words come from

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

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

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

Bad language are some words better than others?

Battistella, Edwin L.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 2005

Bawdy language : everything you always wanted to do but were afraid to say

Paros, Lawrence.
Kirkland, WA : Kvetch Press, c2003. 2003

Damn the man! : slang of the oppressed in America

Dalzell, Tom, 1951-
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2010. 2010

FUBAR : soldier slang of World War II

Rottman, Gordon L.
Botley, Oxford, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Osprey Pub., 2007. 2007

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

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

In praise of profanity

Adams, Michael, 1961- author.
Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. 2016

The life of slang

Coleman, Julie.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012

Musa pedestris. Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (1536-1896)

Farmer, John Stephen, 1845?-1915?
[London] Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1896. 1896

Slang the people's poetry

Adams, Michael, 1961-
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009

Swearing in English bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present

McEnery, Tony, 1964-
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. 2006

Trends in teenage talk corpus compilation, analysis, and findings

Stenstrom, Anna-Brita, 1932-
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2002. 2002

Vulgar tongues : an alternative history of English slang

Décharné, Max, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2017. 2017