Call number | Item |
P | Language and literature (Go to start of category) |
PE | English Language (Go to start of category) |
PE2402 .J7 | English As We Speak It in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,; Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1910), by P. W. Joyce (Gutenberg text) |
PE2751 .P74 2008 | Buying Into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008), by Catherine Prendergast (page images at Pitt) |
PE2801 .A6 | American Speech (partial serial archives) |
PE2808 .M4 | The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org) |
PE2808 .M4 1921 | The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921), by H. L. Mencken (HTML at Bartleby) |
PE2809 .R53 2009 | Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State) |
PE2835 .B3 1848 | Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Particular to the United States (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1848), by John Russell Bartlett (HTML and Epub at merrycoz.org) |
PE2835 .B3 1860 | Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (third edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1860), by John Russell Bartlett |
PE2835 .B3 1884 | Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (fourth edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1884), by John Russell Bartlett (multiple formats at archive.org) |
PE2902 .K78 1939 | Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England (Providence: Brown University, 1939), by Hans Kurath, contrib. by Marcus Lee Hansen, Julia Bloch, and Bernard Bloch (page images at HathiTrust) |
PE2926 .F55 | Bits of Mountain Speech (c1974), by Paul M. Fink (PDF and Epub with commentary at appstate.edu) |
PE3102 .C45 M36 2006 | Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu) |
PE3235 .M35 | English Idioms: Sayings and Slang, by Wayne Magnuson (HTML at english-idioms.net) |
PE3243 .D5 2017 | DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (second edition, 2017), ed. by Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee (illustrated HTML with commentary at dchp.ca) |
PE3245 .N45 D5 1990 | Dictionary of Newfoundland English (second edition with supplement, c1999), ed. by G. M. Story, W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A. Widdowson (searchable HTML in Canada) |
PE3501 .Y8 | Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania) |
PE3625 .C3 | Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972), by Elizabeth Ball Carr, contrib. by Dong Jae Lee (PDF and EPub at Hawaii) |
PE3721 .B25 1823 | Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life (London: Printed for T. Hughes, 1823), by John Badcock (page images at HathiTrust) |
PE3721 .G7 1785 | A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London: S. Hooper, 1785), ed. by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust) |
PE3721 .G73 | 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (updated after 1811), ed. by Francis Grose and Hewson Clarke, contrib. by Robert Cromie (Gutenberg text) |
PE3721 .H68 1860 | A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust) |
PE3721 .W3 1909 | Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang, and Phrase (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1909), by J. Redding Ware (multiple formats at archive.org) |
PE3724 .S85 A537 | Why Do You Swear?, by John Nevins Andrews |
PE3724 .S85 J484 | Don't Swear! ("no. 10"; Raleigh, NC: Board of Missions of the North Carolina Baptist Convention, n.d.), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter |
PE3724 .S85 J484 | Don't Swear! ("no. 32"; Civil war era), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter |