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• Dictionary of the Scots Language (electronic edition) (searchable HTML in the UK)

• Dictionary of the Scots Language (electronic edition) (searchable HTML in the UK)

• A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, Incorporating a Glossary of Scotch Words, With Notes, Index, and Appendix of Reading (Glasgow: Kerr and Richardson, 1889), ed. by J. B. Reid
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013-2017), by William Barnes, ed. by T. L. Burton
  • Volume 1 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, First Collection, 1844): PDF and audio files at Adelaide
  • Volume 2 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Second Collection, 1859): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
  • Volume 3 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Third Collection, 1862): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
• Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1903), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Barrel Organ, by Edwin Waugh (Gutenberg text)
• Bits o' Broad Lancashire: Poems in the Dialect (ca. 1888), by William Baron (HTML in the UK)
• 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)
• Lancashire Songs (1865), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (sheet music edition from Hime and Addison), by Edwin Waugh (PDF files in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Manchester, UK: John Heywood, 1883), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Second Series) (Liverpool: G. Walmsley; Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1889), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)

• A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Early English Pronunciation, With Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer (5 volumes (Early English Text Society Extra Series 2, 7, 14, 23, and 56); 1869-1889), ed. by Alexander John Ellis
  • Part I (On the Pronunciation of the XIVth, XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part II (On the Pronunciation of the XIIIth and Previous Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part III (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part IV (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part V (Existing Dialectal As Compared With West Saxon Pronunciation): multiple formats at Google

• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected text in Czech Republic

• The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text)

• Songs of the Ridings, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (EETS #1, second edition; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1869, reprinted 1965), ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore (c1960), by Joseph S. Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and Sayings of the People of the Town and Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts (Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1916), ed. by William Francis Macy and R. B. Hussey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and Sayings of the People of the Town and Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts (Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1916), ed. by William Francis Macy and R. B. Hussey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Speech (partial serial archives)

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)

• 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)

• The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions, Synoptically Arranged, With Collations Exhibiting All the Readings of All the Mss. (new edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University press, 1887), ed. by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)