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• English language -- United States

• Dialect literature, American

• Americanisms

• 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)

• American Speech (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• An Elephant's Track, and Other Stories, by M. E. M. Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bayou Folk, by Kate Chopin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by Francis Hopkinson Smith
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Dialect Tales, by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• In Simpkinsville: Character Tales, by Ruth McEnery Stuart (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1850), by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858), by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches, by Joel Chandler Harris (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Northern Georgia Sketches, by Will N. Harben (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Night in Acadie, by Kate Chopin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandisimmes: A Story of Creole Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880), by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandissimes (1899 edition), by George Washington Cable, illust. by Albert Herter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reminiscences of Isaac and Sukey, Slaves of B. F. Moore, of Raleigh, N.C. (Raleigh, NC: Edwards, 1907), by L. C. Capehart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Heart of Old Hickory, and Other Stories of Tennessee, by Will Allen Dromgoole (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• In the Tennessee Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool", by George Washington Harris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• In Ole Virginia, or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, by Thomas Nelson Page (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.