| Call number | Item |
| P | Language and literature (Go to start of category) |
| PE | English Language (Go to start of category) |
| PE1721 .W8 | ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) The English Dialect Grammar: Comprising the Dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and of Those Parts of Scotland, Ireland and Wales Where English is Habitually Spoken (Oxford et al.: H. Frowde, 1905), by Joseph Wright |
| PE1948 .C7 | Dialect of South Lancashire: or, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, Revised and Corrected, With His Rhymes, and an Enlarged and Amended Glossary of Words and Phrases Chiefly Used by the Rural Population of the Manufacturing Districts of South Lancaster (1850), by Tim Bobbin, ed. by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK) |
| PE2031 .J52 1869 | The Dialect of the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire: With a Glossary of Words Now in Use There; Also With Poems and Other Pieces Exemplifying the Dialect (second edition; London: John Russell Smith, 1869), by James Jennings |
| PE2102 .C7 | The Scottish Tongue: A Series of Lectures on the Vernacular Language of Lowland Scotland, Delivered to the Members of the Vernacular Circle of the Burns Club of London (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1924), by William A. Craigie, John Buchan, Peter Giles, and John Malcolm Bulloch |
| PE2106 | Dictionary of the Scots Language (electronic edition) (searchable HTML in the UK) |
| 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) |