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  • A pronouncing dictionary of American English, by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas Albert Knott.

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    • Springfield, Mass., G. &. C. Merriam Co. [c1953]
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
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  • Idiom drills for students of English as a second language [by] George P. McCallum.

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    • New York, Crowell [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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  • The world of words; an introduction to language in general and to English and American in particular. 3d ed.

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    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1970]
    • 1970-1948
    • 1 Item
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  • A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalized. [7th ed. Suppl. rev. and enl.]

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    • London, Routledge & K. Paul [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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  • Amerikansk slang. [2. uppl.]

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    • Stockholm Prisma [1971, c1970]
    • 1971-1970
    • 1 Item
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  • English idioms and Americanisms for foreign students, professionals, and physicians, by J. E. Schmidt.

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    • Springfield, Ill., C. C. Thomas [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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  • Sayings from Old Smoky, some traditional phrases, expressions, and sentences heard in the Great Smoky Mountains and nearby areas; an introd. to a Southern mountain dialect, collected and edited by Joseph S. Hall.

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    • Asheville, N.C., Cataloochee Press [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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  • A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized. In two volumes. [6th ed.] Volume II: The supplement [rev. and enl.]

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    • London, Routledge & K. Paul, [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 72-1005Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalized. [5th ed., suppl. much enl.]

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    • London, Routledge & K. Paul [1961]
    • 1961
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFF 72-1004 v. 1Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JFF 72-1004 v. 2(suppl.)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • An Anglo-American interpreter; a vocabulary and phrase book.

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    • [Folcroft, Pa.] The Folcroft Press [1970]
    • 1970-1939
    • 1 Item
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  • A dictionary of American slang [by] Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard.

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    • Girard, Kan., Haldeman-Julius Co., [c1926]
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-2016 1926Offsite
  • La langue des Américains [par] Guy Jean Forgue et Raven I. McDavid, Jr.

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    • Paris, Aubier Montaigne, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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  • Die Syntaktischen Eigentünlichkeiten des amerikanischen Englisch.

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    • München, M. Hueber, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 73-6375Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • What's the difference? A British/American dictionary.

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    • New York, Harper & Row [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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  • Wörterbuch der Americanismen; Eigenheiten der englischen Sprache in Nordamerika.

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    • [Walluf bei Wiesbaden] M. Sändig [1972]
    • 1972-1866
    • 1 Item
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  • American English, English American: a two-way glossary of words in daily use on both sides of the Atlantic [compiled and edited by Anthea Bickerton]2d ed [microform].

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    • Bristol, Abson Books, 1973.
    • 1973
  • Amerikanisch-deutsche Sprach- und Literaturbeziehungen: systemat. Übersicht u. Forschungsbericht 1945-1970/ Hans Galinsky. -

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    • Frankfurt (Main): Athenäum-Verlag, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 74-3546Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A dictionary of Americanisms on historical principles. Edited by Mitford M. Mathews.

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    • Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966, c1951]
    • 1966-1951
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-RMRR PE2835 .D5 1951Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • The Slanguage dictionary of modern American slang.

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    • [Newton, Ia., L. B. Robison, 1944]
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFB 75-102Offsite
  • Webster's New World dictionary of the American language / David B. Guralnik, editor in chief.

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    • Cleveland : W. Collins, [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 87-2138Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • American talk : where our words come from / J. L. Dillard.

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    • New York : Random House, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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  • Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. - 2d supplemented ed.

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    • New York : Crowell, [1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 00-8273Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The lexicon of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

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    • [Princeton] 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-2526Offsite
  • A dictionary of the Old West, 1850-1900 / by Peter Watts. 1st ed.

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    • New York : Knopf, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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  • Living language : USA culture capsules for ESL students : dialogs on life in the United States for students of English as a foreign language / Jerrilou Johnson.

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    • Rowley, Mass. : Newbury House Publishers, c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 79-6725Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Mei yu xin chuan. / Jiao Zhi Gao zhu. Di 4 ban.

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    • Taibei: Chun wen xue chu ban she, Min'guo 64 [1976]
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OVG 78-4589Offsite
  • Understanding American English.

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    • Stockholm, Läromedelsförlagen, [1972.]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 79-6451Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Mei yü Ying yü tui chao shou tsʻe.

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    • Hsiang Kang : Wan li shu tien, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OVG 75-1528Offsite
  • Americanisms; content and continuum.

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    • San Francisco.
    • 2 Items
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    Text M-11 5204 v. 1-18Offsite
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    Text M-11 5204 v. 19-34Offsite
  • The Jonathan David dictionary of popular slang / by Anita Pearl.

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    • Middle Village, N.Y. : Jonathan David Publishers, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 80-2764Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Country talk / by Dick Syatt. 1st ed.

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    • Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 80-3001Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Slanguage : America's second language / Gibson Carothers & James Lacey.

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    • New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFC 80-2853Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Words and phrases of early America, by George and Virginia Schaun.

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    • Annapolis, Greenberry Publications, c1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 78-274Offsite
  • Dan Burley's Original handbook of Harlem jive; illustrations by Melvin Tapley.

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    • New York, c1944.
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-3930Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Beigo no shōgeki : Jisho no uso / Matsuda Yutaka.

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    • Tokyo : Taishūkan Shoten, 1975.
    • 975
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSG 82-2396Offsite
  • English English / by Norman W. Schur.

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    • Essex, Conn. : Verbatim, c1980.
    • 1980-1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 82-634Offsite
  • The language of ethnic conflict : social organization and lexical culture / Irving Lewis Allen.

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    • New York : Columbia University Press, 1983.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 83-1571Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Die englische Sprache in den USA : Variation und Struktur / Ursula Oomen.

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    • Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 1982-
    • 1982-present
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFL 83-107 v. 1Offsite
  • East Tennessee folk speech : a synopsis / Lee Pederson.

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    • Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 85-5433Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Saishin Nichi-Bei kōgo jiten = Modern colloquialisms revised Japanese-English / Edowādo Jī Saidensutekka, Matsumoto Michihiro kyōhen.

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    • Tōkyō : Asahi Shuppansha, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSG 84-940Offsite
  • A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalised / Eric Partridge ; edited by Paul Beale.

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    • London : Routledge, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 2 Items
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  • Dictionary of American regional English / Frederic G. Cassidy, chief editor.

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    • Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985-2013.
    • 1985-2013
    • 16 Items
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    Text *R-RMRR PE2843 .D52 1985 v. 5 (Sl - Z)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • Slovník amerikanismů / Jaroslav Peprník.

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    • V Praze : Státní pedagogické nakl., 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text *QAD 87-1126Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • New dictionary of American slang / edited by Robert L. Chapman.

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    • New York : Harper & Row, c1986.
    • 1986
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc E 88-152Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • American talk : the words and ways of American dialects / Robert Hendrickson.

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    • New York, NY : Viking, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 87-308Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • American literature and the American language : an address delivered at Washington University on June 9, 1953 / by T.S. Eliot. With an appendix, The Eliot family and St. Louis prepared by the Department of English.

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    • St. Louis : Committee on Publications, Washington University, 1953.
    • 1953
    • 2 Items
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    Text Berg Coll (Eliot) 01-157Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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  • American regional dialects : a word geography / Craig M. Carver.

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    • Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-RMRR PE2841 .C37 1987Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • Political Americanisms [microform]; a glossary of terms and phrases current at different periods in American politics By Charles Ledyard Norton..

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    • New York, Longmans, Green, 1890.
    • 1890
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-4148 no. 1-8Offsite
  • Good words to you : an all-new dictionary and native's guide to the unknown American language / John Ciardi.

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    • New York : Harper & Row, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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  • The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States / by H.L. Mencken.

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    • New York : A. A. Knopf, 1936.
    • 1936
    • 3 Items
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