Americanisms
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Black English vernacular
The Oxford American dictionary and language guide
Oxford Picture Dictionary Assessment Program
American Slang
Slang
Informal English
Start with English
Straight from the fridge, dad
African-American English
The illustrated Texas dictionary of the English language
NTC's thematic dictionary of American slang
Listening to America
The mountain man vernacular
Anglish/Yinglish
British self-taught
The American Language
The language of ethnic conflict
You're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bathwater
The American language
Webster's New World dictionary of American English
How to speak like a southerner
The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary
Peter Tamony
Manual of American English pronunciation
Cursing in America
New words and a changing American culture
NTC's dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations
Spanglish
A glossary of Faulkner's South
Discovering American dialects
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