americanisms

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americanisms

Juba to jive

a dictionary of African-American slang
1994
Offers a collection of African-American slang terms with definitions.

Look it up

a deskbook of American spelling and style
1977
Includes more than 18,000 alphabetical entries, covering American usage, grammatical construction, and spelling.

Black English

its history and usage in the United States
1972

The Oxford desk dictionary and thesaurus

1997
Contains alphabetically-arranged entries, each of which combines meanings and related words, and features seventeen quick reference appendices including multiplication tables, U.S. Presidents, and chemical elements.

NTC's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

1995
A dictionary of American slang, including fad words, idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech. Includes a "phrase-finder" index.

Webster's New World dictionary

1990
Includes the commonly used words that make up the basic vocabulary of English, as well as some specialized terms, abbreviations, and foreign words and phrases.

O brave new words!

Native American loanwords in current English
1994

Slanguage

America's second language
1979
A collection of saying that are commonly used and understood by Americans, but rarely found in dictionaries.

The Columbia guide to standard American English

1993
A usage guide to American English, with more than 6500 entries, which distinguishes between various levels of speaking and writing, from the most casual to the most formal, to help the reader best choose the correct words.

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