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A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such americanisms as have been naturalized
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ISBN: 0710067763 9780710067760 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul

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The word on the street : fact and fable about American English
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ISBN: 0306459949 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York London Plenum Trade

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The American way of spelling : the structure and origins of American English orthography
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ISBN: 1572304693 9781572304697 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York London Guilford Press

I hear America talking : an illustrated treasury of American words and phrases
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ISBN: 0442224133 Year: 1976 Publisher: New York [etc.] Van Nostrand Reinhold

American English : dialects and variation
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ISBN: 0631204873 0631204865 9780631204879 Year: 1998 Volume: 25 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

African-American English : structure, history, and use
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ISBN: 041511733X 0415117321 9780415117333 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Routledge


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Speaking American : a history of English in the United States
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ISBN: 9780190232603 9780195179347 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. --from publisher description.

The emergence of Black English : text and commentary
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ISBN: 9027252289 1556191634 1556191618 9786613328199 1283328194 9027277834 Year: 1991 Volume: 8 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of BEV is sparse. This book brings together 11 transcripts of mechanical recordings of interviews with former slaves born well over a century ago. It attempts to make this crucial source of data as widely known as possible and to explore its importance for the study of Black English Vernacular in view of

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