Americanisms
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Americanisms
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Americanisms
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- Americanisms - old & new;, a dictionary of words, phrases and colloquialisms peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, etc. etc., their derivation, meaning and application, together with numerous anecdotal, historical, explanatory, and folk-lore notes., Compiled and edited by John S. Farmer. London, Priv. print. by T. Poulter, 1889
- O brave new words!, Native American loanwords in current English, by Charles L. Cutler
- An inconvenient alphabet, Ben Franklin and Noah Webster's spelling revolution, written by Beth Anderson ; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley
- American English compendium, a portable guide to the idiosyncrasies, subtleties, technical lingo, and nooks and crannies of American English, Marv Rubinstein
- Inglés esencial, un método fácil (y práctico) para hablar y comprender el inglés cotidiano, por Frank Kennedy
- Speaking American, a history of English in the United States, Richard W. Bailey
- Mastering the American accent, Lisa Mojsin
- A dictionary of modern American usage,, by H. W. Horwill
- That's not English, Britishisms, Americanisms, and what our English says about us, Erin Moore
- Dictionary of American slang,, compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. With a supplement by Stuart Berg Flexner
- A dictionary of the Old West, 1850-1900, by Peter Watts
- Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties, edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, with the assistance of Nancy Condon
- American English, an introduction, Zoltan Kovecses
- A few words, Laurence F. McNamee and Kent Biffle
- Oxford basic American dictionary for learners of English, [senior editor, Jennifer Bradbery]
- Chin music, tall talk and other talk, collected from American folklore by Alvin Schwartz ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- McGraw-Hill's conversational American English, the illustrated guide to the everyday expressions of American English, Richard A. Spears, Betty Birner, Steven Kleinedler ; illustrated by Luc Nisset
- Improvise, adapt, overcome, how to understand common American idioms : life lessons for young adults from common American idioms, Robert Jackson
- 101 American English idioms
- Do you speak American?, producer & director, William Cran ; writers, William Cran & Robert MacNeil ; producer, Christopher Buchanan ; a MacNeil/Lehrer & Paladin InVision Production with Thirteen/WNET New York in association with KLRU Austin, Texas
- 101 American English idioms, Harry Collis ; illustrated by Mario Risso
- Our own words
- Garner's modern American usage, Bryan A. Garner
- An American glossary;, being an attempt to illustrate certain Americanisms upon historical principles., With an introd. by Margaret M. Bryant
- Easy American idioms
- The American language
- A dictionary of contemporary American usage,, by Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans
- Easy American idioms
- NTC's dictionary of everyday American English expressions, presented according to topic and situation, Richard A. Spears, Steven R. Kleinedler, Betty J. Birner
- OK, the improbable story of America's greatest word, Allan Metcalf
- Expresiones norteamericanas corrientes, common American phrases for Spanish speakers, Richard A. Spears ; Julia Kurtz, Spanish editor
- Speaking freely, a guided tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley, Stuart Berg Flexner and Anne H. Soukhanov
- Current American usage
- Anglish-yinglish, Yiddish in American life and literature, Gene Bluestein
- Speak American, a survival guide to the language and culture of the U.S.A., by Dileri Borunda Johnston
- Spanglish, the making of a new American language, Ilan Stavans
- American dialect dictionary,, by Harold Wentworth
- A word geography of the eastern United States
- Manual of American dialects, for radio, stage, screen and television,, by Lewis Helmar Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman
- A pronouncing dictionary of American English,, by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas Albert Knott
- A dictionary of catch phrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day, Eric Partridge
- What in the word?, wordplay, word lore, and answers to the peskiest questions about language, Charles Harrington Elster
- McGraw-Hill's conversational American English, Richard Spears
- Trip of the tongue, cross-country travels in search of America's languages, Elizabeth Little
- A dictionary of slang and unconventional English;, colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalized
- Home ground, language for an American landscape, Barry Lopez, editor ; Debra Gwartney, managing editor
- NTC's dictionary of American English pronunciation, Bernard Silverstein
- An introduction to the phonetics of American English
- A browser's dictionary, and native's guide to the unknown American language, John Ciardi
- African-American English, structure, history, and use, edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene [and others]
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