Incoming Resources
- 101 American English idioms, Harry Collis ; illustrated by Mario Risso
- Readings in African American language, aspects, features, and perspectives, edited by Nathaniel Norment, Jr
- O brave new words!, Native American loanwords in current English, by Charles L. Cutler
- How we talk, American regional English today, Allan Metcalf
- The word on the street, debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, John McWhorter
- Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers, a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century, Rosemarie Ostler
- Expresiones norteamericanas corrientes, common American phrases for Spanish speakers, Richard A. Spears ; Julia Kurtz, Spanish editor
- American English
- Speak American, a survival guide to the language and culture of the U.S.A., by Dileri Borunda Johnston
- Anglish-yinglish, Yiddish in American life and literature, Gene Bluestein
- American talk : the words and ways of American dialects, Robert Hendrickson
- What in the word?, wordplay, word lore, and answers to the peskiest questions about language, Charles Harrington Elster
- Out of the mouths of slaves, African American language and educational malpractice, John Baugh ; foreword by William Labov
- A dictionary of slang and unconventional English, colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalized
- Spanglish, the making of a new American language, Ilan Stavans
- Speaking American, a history of English in the United States, Richard W. Bailey
- The American language, an inquiry into the development of English in the United States, by H. L. Mencken
- African-American English, structure, history, and use, edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene ... [et al.]
- American accent training, by Ann Cook
- Wicked good words, from johnnycakes to jug handles, a roundup of America's regionalisms, Mim Harrison
- Sociocultural and historical contexts of African American English, edited by Sonja L. Lanehart
- The development of African American English, Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas
- Word from the mother, language and African Americans, Geneva Smitherman
- The American accent guide, a comprehensive course on the sound system of American English, Beverly A. Lujan
- How to speak Southern, by Steve Mitchell, with illustrations by SCRAWLS (Sam C. Rawls)
- A few words, Laurence F. McNamee and Kent Biffle ; [foreword by Jim Lehrer]
- Words from the White House, words and phrases coined or popularized by America's presidents, Paul Dickson
- Idiom savant, slang as it is slung, Jerry Dunn
- Talkin that talk, language, culture, and education in African America, Geneva Smitherman
- African American English in the diaspora, Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte
- Do you speak American?, a companion to the PBS television series, Robert MacNeil and William Cran