The list excludes a number of authors or works cited only once or twice; for these,
specific bibliographical information is provided in the relevant headnote.
| AND |
The Australian National Dictionary; A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles, ed W.S. Ransom (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988) |
| Anglo-Manx Dialect |
A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect, comp A.W. Moore et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924) |
| Beothuk Vocabularies |
John Hewson, Beothuk Vocabularies: A
Comparative Study (St John's: Newfoundland
Museum, 1978) |
| BERREY |
The American Thesaurus of Slang, comp
Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1943) |
| BRYANT |
Ralph Clement Bryant, Logging: The
Principles and General Methods of
Operation in the United States, 2nd ed
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1923) |
| COHEN |
Anthony P. Cohen, Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland
Island Community (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987) |
| DAA |
Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, ed Mitford M. Mathews
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951) |
| DAE |
A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, eds William A.
Craigie and James R. Hulbert, 4 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1938-1944) |
| DARE |
Dictionary of American Regional English, Chief Editor, Frederic G.
Cassidy, vol. i, A-C (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1985) |
| DAS |
Dictionary of American Slang, 2nd supplemented ed, eds Harold Wentworth and
Stuart Berg Flexner (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975) |
| DBE |
John A. Holm with Alison Watt Shilling, Dictionary of Bahamian English
(Cold Spring, N.Y.: Lexik House Publishers, 1982) |
| DC |
Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, editor-in-chief, Walter
S. Avis (Toronto: W.J. Gage Limited, 1967) |
| DINNEEN |
Foclóir Gaedhilge agus béarla; An Irish-English Dictionary, ed Patrick
S. Dinneen (Dublin: Educational Company of Ireland, 1927; rpt 1965) |
| DJE |
Dictionary of Jamaican English, eds F.G. Cassidy and R.B. Le Page
(Cambridge: The University Press, 1967; 2nd ed, 1979) |
| EDD |
The English Dialect Dictionary, ed Joseph Wright, 6 vols. (Oxford
University Press, 1898-1905; rpt 1961) |
| EDD Sup |
'Supplement' in vol. vi of The English Dialect Dictionary (Oxford
University Press, 1905) |
| JOYCE |
P.W. Joyce, English as We Speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green &
Co., 1910) |
| LEMOINE |
Geo. Lemoine, Dictionnaire Français-montagnais avec un vocabulaire
montagnais-anglais (Boston: W.B. Cabot and P. Cabot, 1901) |
| MED |
Middle English Dictionary, eds Hans Kurath, Sherman M. Kuhn, John Reidy and
others, A-SPR (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956-1989) |
| NID |
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, editor-in-chief, Philip
Babcock Gove (Springfield: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1961) |
| OED |
The Oxford English Dictionary, ed James A.H. Murray and other, 12 vols.
(Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1884-1928; corrected reissue, 1933) |
| OED 2nd ed |
Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition, prepared by J.A. Simpson
and E.S.C. Weiner, 20 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) |
| O Sup1 |
The Oxford English Dictionary; Supplement and Bibliography (Oxford: At
the Clarendon Press, 1933) |
| O Sup2 |
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, ed R.W. Burchfield, 4
vols. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1972-1986) |
| PEACOCK |
English-Eskimo Dictionary, ed F.W. Peacock (St. John's: Memorial
University of Newfoundland, [1974]) |
| PRATT |
Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, ed T.K. Pratt (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1988) |
| SED |
Survey of English Dialects; The Basic
Material, 4 vols. in 12 parts, ed Harold
Orton and others (Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son
Limited, 1962-71) |
| SMYTH |
The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical
Digest of Nautical Terms, ed W.H. Smyth
(London: Blackie and Son, 1867) |
| SND |
The Scottish National Dictionary, eds
William Grant and David Murison, 10 vols.
(Edinburgh: The Scottish National
Dictionary Association Ltd, [1931]-1976) |
| SORDEN |
L.G. Sorden, Lumberjack Lingo (Spring
Green: Wisconsin House, Inc., 1969) |
| Trésor de la langue française |
Trésor de la langue française;
Dictionnaire de la langue du XIXe et du XXe
siècle (1789-1960), [directed by] Paul
Imbs (Paris: Editions due centre national
de la recherche scientifique, 1971-) |
| WAKELIN |
Martyn F. Wakelin, The Southwest of
England (Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Publishing Company, 1986) |
