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) |