Dialects
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La Divina Commedia
Inferno
Some sources of Southernisms
The slang dictionary
The history of the English language
A second Anglo-Saxon reader
The Italian language today
Mandarin primer
The genre poissard and the French stage of the eighteenth century
From Old English to Standard English
From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture
The dialects of England
The Čakavian dialect of Orbanići near Žminj in Istria
Varieties of English
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II (D-H)
The social differentiation of English in Norwich
On early English pronunciation
Form and function in Chicano English
The Roxburghshire word-book
Sociolinguistic patterns in British English
The muvver tongue
On nationality and language in the Duchy of Sleswick or South Jutland
The five clocks
Strange talk
Spik o the place
The Yearling
English in black and white
Dialects at School
Mexican Spanish phrasebook
An introduction to regional Englishes
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