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Black English vernacular

Monica Frazier Anderson

1994

The Oxford American dictionary and language guide

Oxford

1999

Oxford Picture Dictionary Assessment Program

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro, Oxford University Press Staff

2008

American Slang

Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman

1992

Slang

Paul Dickson

1990

Informal English

Jeffrey Kacirk

2005

Start with English

D.H. Howe

1979

Straight from the fridge, dad

Max Décharné

2001

African-American English

Salikoko S. Mufwene

1998

The illustrated Texas dictionary of the English language

Jim Everhart

1985

NTC's thematic dictionary of American slang

Richard A. Spears

1998

Listening to America

Stuart Berg Flexner

1982

The mountain man vernacular

Richard C. Poulsen

1985

Anglish/Yinglish

Gene Bluestein

1989

British self-taught

Norman W. Schur

1973

The American Language

H. L. Mencken

1919

The language of ethnic conflict

Irving L. Allen

1983

You're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bathwater

Stephan Dweck, Monteria Ivey

1996

The American language

H. L. Mencken

1938

Webster's New World dictionary of American English

David Bernard Guralnik, Victoria Neufeldt

1991

How to speak like a southerner

Dian Eaton

1992

The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary

Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

2002

Peter Tamony

Marjorie W. McLain

1986

Manual of American English pronunciation

Clifford H. Prator

1972

Cursing in America

Timothy Jay

1992

New words and a changing American culture

Raymond Gozzi

1990

NTC's dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations

Steven Racek Kleinedler

1993

Spanglish

Ilan Stavans

2003

A glossary of Faulkner's South

Brown, Calvin Smith

1976

Discovering American dialects

Roger W. Shuy

1967

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