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American English compendium : a portable guide to the idiosyncrasies, subtleties, technical lingo, a


Rubinstein, Marvin, author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 2014

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Literature suppressed on social grounds


Sova, Dawn B.
New York, NY : Facts On File, [2006] 2006

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Juba to jive : a dictionary of African-American slang



New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, [1994] 1994

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The blue and gray almanac : the Civil War in facts and figures, recipes and slang


Nofi, Albert A., author.
Philadelphia ; Oxford : Casemate Publishers, 2017. 2017

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The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States


Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1936. 1936

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The United States of English : the American language from colonial times to the twenty-first century


Ostler, Rosemarie, author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] 2023

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Random House historical dictionary of American slang



New York : Random House, [1994-<©1997>] 1994

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McGraw-Hill's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions


Spears, Richard A.
New York, NY : McGraw-Hill, [2006] 2006

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War slang : American fighting words and phrases from the Civil War to the Gulf War


Dickson, Paul.
New York : Pocket Books, [1994] 1994

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Barron's American slang dictionary and thesaurus


Mary Elizabeth (Mary Elizabeth Podhaizer)
Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, [2009] 2009

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What did you say?


Trussell-Cullen, Alan.
Auckland, N.Z. : Shortland ; Melbourne, Australia : Rigby Education ; Crystal Lake, IL : distributed in the United States of America by Rigby, [1988] 1988

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Slang! : the topical dictionary of Americanisms


Dickson, Paul.
New York : Walker & Co., [2006] 2006

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NTC's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions


Spears, Richard A, author
Lincolnwood, Ill., U.S.A. : National Textbook Company, [1989] 1989

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The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English


Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2015. 2015

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New dictionary of American slang


Chapman, Robert L., 1920-2002.
New York : Harper & Row, 1986. 1986

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Celebrate the American way : a fun ESL guide to English language and culture in the U.S.


Murtha, Sheila MacKechnie, author.
Piscataway, New Jersey : Research & Education Association, 2018. 2018

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Slang : the people's poetry


Adams, Michael, 1961-
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009

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Nigger : The strange career of a troublesome word


Kennedy, Randall, 1954-
New York : Pantheon Books, [2002] 2002

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The vulgar tongue : Green's history of slang


Green, Jonathon, 1948- author.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015. 2015

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Hatchet jobs and hardball : the Oxford dictionary of American political slang



Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2004] 2004

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The city in slang : New York life and popular speech


Allen, Irving L., 1931-2002.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. 1993

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Dictionary of American slang


Chapman, Robert L., 1920-2002.
New York : HarperCollins, [1995] 1995

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NTC's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions


Spears, Richard A.
Lincolnwood (Chicago), Ill. : NTC Pub. Group, 2000. 2000

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Slang! : the topic-by-topic dictionary of contemporary American lingoes


Dickson, Paul.
New York : Pocket Books, [1990] 1990

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Words of the Vietnam War : the slang, jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, nomenclature, nicknames, pseu


Clark, Gregory R., 1948-
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [1990] 1990

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NTC's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions


Spears, Richard A.
Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC Publishing Group, [1995] 1995

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The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide: A Dictionary of Over 3,000 Slang Expressions, Proverbs, Idio


Hamer, Eleanor.
[Place of publication not identified] : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2008. 2008

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Speaking freely : a guided tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley


Flexner, Stuart Berg.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. 1997

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Language loyalties : a source book on the official English controversy



Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992. 1992

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Garner's modern American usage


Garner, Bryan A.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 2003

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American slang : cultural language guide to living in the USA


Melillo, Joseph.
Seattle, Wash. : Classic Day Pub., [2004] 2004

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Vulgar tongues : an alternative history of English slang


Décharné, Max, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2017. 2017

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Black talk : words and phrases from the hood to the amen corner


Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2000] 2000

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Handbook of commonly used American idioms



Hauppauge, New York : Barron's, [2013] 2013

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1811 dictionary of the vulgar tongue : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket


Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.
[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 2013. 2013

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Idiom savant : slang as it is slung


Dunn, Jerry Camarillo.
New York : Henry Holt, 1997. 1997

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Urban dictionary : fularious street slang defined


Peckham, Aaron.
Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel Pub., 2005. 2005

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Grunt Slang in Vietnam : Words of the War


Rottman, Gordon L., author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Casemate Publishers, [2020] 2020

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Dirty Sign Language : Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"


O., Allison, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Ulysses Press, [2011] 2011

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Dog whistles, walk-backs, and Washington handshakes : decoding the jargon, slang, and bluster of Ame


McCutcheon, Chuck, 1963- author.
Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, [2014] 2014

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Words their way with English learners : word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling


Helman, Lori.
Boston : Pearson Education, [2012] 2012

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Dictionary of Russian slang & colloquial expressions : = Russkiĭ sleng


Shli︠a︡khov, V. I. (Vladimir Ivanovich)
Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, [1995] 1995

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Dictionary of contemporary slang


Thorne, Tony, author.
London : Bloomsbury, ©2014. 2014

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Let's talk turkey : the stories behind America's favorite expressions


Ostler, Rosemarie.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008. 2008

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A pocket dictionary of the vulgar tongue


Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, author.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2020] 2020

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Red, white & royal blue


McQuiston, Casey, author.
Warszawa : Prószyński i S-ka, 2020. 2020

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The prodigal tongue : the love-hate relationship between American and British English


Murphy, M. Lynne, author.
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018] 2018

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Amglish in, like, ten easy lessons : a celebration of the new world lingo


Rowse, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward)
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, [2011] 2011

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