English language -- Provincialisms
Here are entered works on English words, expressions, or modes of pronunciation peculiar to a specific locality.
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Bits of Mountain Speech (c1974), by Paul M. Fink (PDF and Epub with commentary at appstate.edu)- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Bits of Mountain Speech (c1974), by Paul M. Fink (PDF and Epub with commentary at appstate.edu)
- Bits of Mountain Speech (c1974), by Paul M. Fink (PDF and Epub with commentary at appstate.edu)
- 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)
- 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)
- Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- "Language of the Mosshorn": A Glossary of Cowboy Lingo, Rodeo Terms, Dude Ranch Jargon, Range Profanity and Other Western Expressions (Billings, MT: Gazette Printing Co., c1936), ed. by Don McCarthy, illust. by Will James and Dale Petit (page images at HathiTrust)
- Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore (c1960), by Joseph S. Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- American Speech (partial serial archives)
- 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)
- English Idioms: Sayings and Slang, by Wayne Magnuson (HTML at english-idioms.net)
- 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)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: English language- From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
- Impenetrability: or, The Proper Habit of English (London: Pub. by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- 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)
- The English Language (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1912), by Logan Pearsall Smith (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
- What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Bob Broad (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A Textbook on School Subjects, Drawing and Pedagogics: Penmanship; Vertican Penmansip; Grammar; Punctuation and Capitalization; Double-Entry Bookkeeping; With Questions and Exercises (Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1902), by International Correspondence Schools
- The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1989), ed. by Pamela B. Childers (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Lynn Z. Bloom (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Mildred Buchanan Flagg
- How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (author's copyright edition; Boston: Robert Bros., 1883), by Edwin A. Abbott
- A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition, For the Use of Colleges and Schools (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1867), by John Mitchell Bonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum (c1994), ed. by Pamela B. Childers, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- Primer and Language Lessons in English and Cree, by E. B. Glass, trans. by John McDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
- Lessons in Reading-Writing-Arithmetic, for Special School Work in Georgia (Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, state printer, 1916), by Georgia Department of Education
- Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day (reprint; originally printed Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Walter W. Skeat (Gutenberg text)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- Catchwords and Claptrap (London: L. and V. Woolf, 1926), by Rose Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (first edition volumes, 1888-1928), ed. by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, William A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions (page images at archive.org and HathiTrust)
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse, 1828), by Noah Webster
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (abridged from the quarto edition, revised, with appendix; New York: White and Sheffield, 1841), by Noah Webster, contrib. by John Walker (multiple formats at Google)
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fifth edition) (searchable HTML with commentary at ahdictionary.com)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (12 volumes; New York: The Century Co., c1906-1910), ed. by William Dwight Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (seventh impression of first edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), ed. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785), by Samuel Johnson
- A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous, With a Copious Appendix (Springfield, MA: G. C. Merriam and Co., 1872), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Noah Porter, and William A. Wheeler (page images at MOA)
- The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language With a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronounciation, and Use (7 volumes; London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1879-1888), ed. by Robert Hunter
- Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (free online edition) (searchable HTML at ldoceonline.com)
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (current edition, with additional material) (searchable HTML at m-w.com)
- A New Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; London: W. Pickering, 1836-1837), by Charles Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary (6th edition; London: Printed for J. Philips, et al., 1706), ed. by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
- Universal Dictionary of the English Language: A New and Original Work Presenting for Convenient Reference the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, Use, Origin and Development of Every Word in the English Language (4 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier, 1897), ed. by Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
- searchable HTML at Chicago
- A-B: HUGE Gutenberg text
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- D-E: HUGE Gutenberg text
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- M-O: HUGE Gutenberg text
- P-Q: HUGE Gutenberg text
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- T-W: HUGE Gutenberg text
- X-Z: Gutenberg text (zipped only)
- An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
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