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• Verzeichniss und Erklärung Amerikanischer Historischer, Geographischer und Politischer Bei-, Spitz- und Spott-Namen (Surnames and Nicknames) (in German; Hoboken, NJ: H. D. Gerdts, 1869), by W. Mussehl (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)

• 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)
• The Palmetto Dictionary: In Which the Meaning of Every Word is Clearly Explained and the Sound of Every Syllable Distinctly Shown; Exhibiting the Principles of a Pure and Correct Pronunciation (new edition; Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1864), by John Walker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Crowell's Dictionary of English Grammar, and Handbook of American Usage (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1928), by Maurice H. Weseen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)
• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• 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)

• Alternatives to Grading Student Writing (c1997), ed. by Stephen Tchudi (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing (revised edition, c2010), by IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1997), ed. by Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser (PDF with commentary at usu.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
  • 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)

• 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)

• Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (New York: New York University Press, c1998), by Michael Bérubé (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), by Tony Scott (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), by Tony Scott (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Going Public: What Writing Programs Learn from Engagement (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010), ed. by Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing (c2010), ed. by David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony DiRenzo (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), ed. by Greg Giberson and Thomas A. Moriarty (PDF with commentary at usu.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)
• Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda (1997), ed. by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta (page images at NAP)

• Designing Writing Assignments (c2008), by Traci Gardner (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Alternatives to Grading Student Writing (c1997), ed. by Stephen Tchudi (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Linda Adler-Kassner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Writing Program Administration (2007), by Susan H. McLeod (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus After the WPA Outcomes Statement (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Susanmarie Harrington (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers Across the Curriculum (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Designing Writing Assignments (c2008), by Traci Gardner (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines (c1990), by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, contrib. by Virginia Johnson Anderson, John R. Breihan, Susan Robison, and A. Kimbrough Sherman (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College (c1997), by Howard B. Tinberg (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Blackguardiana: or, A Dictionary of Rogues, Bawds, Pimps, Whores, Pickpockets, Shoplifters, Mail-Robbers, Coiners, House-Breakers, Murderers, Pirates, Gipsies, Mountebanks, &c. &c. (anonymous, but attributed to Caulfield as an expanded version of Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue; ca. 1793), ed. by James Caulfield, contrib. by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves (London: J. Duncombe, 1848), illust. by George Cruikshank
  • illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms (New York: Hastings House, 1946), by Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
• The English Gipsies and Their Language (second edition; London: Trubner and Co., 1874), by Charles Godfrey Leland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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