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.
| ADD | American Dialect Dictionary, ed Harold Wentworth (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1944). |
| BARNES |
A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, comp William Barnes (Dorchester: M.& E. Case, 1886) |
| BERREY |
The American Thesaurus of Slang, comp Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Vanden Bark (New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1943) |
| BOSWORTH-TOLLER |
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, eds Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (London:
Oxford University Press, 1898; rpt 1972). |
| BOWEN |
Sea Slang, ed Frank C. Bowen (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [1929] |
| 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) |
| Cent |
The Century Dictionary, editor-in-chief, William Dwight Whitney, 12 vols. (New York: The Century Co.,
1891; rpt 1906) |
| DA |
A 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) |
| DAS |
Dictionary of American Slang, 2nd supplemented ed, eds Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner (New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,1975) |
| DC |
A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, editor-in-chief, Walter S. Avis (Toronto: W.J. Gage
Limited, 1967) |
| DE LA MORANDIÈRE |
Ch. De la Morandière, Histoire de la pêche française
de la morue dans l'Amérique
septentrionale (de la révolution à nos jours), Tome iii, 'Dictionnaire terreveuvier'
(Paris: G.-P Maisonneuve et Larose, 1966) |
| Dict Aust Colloq |
A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, ed G.A. Wilkes (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1978) |
| 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) |
| EDG |
The English Dialect Grammar, Joseph Wright (Oxford University Press, 1905; rpt 1961) |
| ELMER |
Willy Elmer,Terminology of Fishing; A Survey of English and Welsh Inshore-Fishing Things and
Words (Bern: Francke Verlag, 1973) |
| Fisheries of U S |
The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, comp George Brown Goode, Sec.
V, vol. i (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887) |
| Glossaire |
Glossaire du parler français au Canada (Québec: L'Action Sociale, 1930) |
| Gray's Botany |
Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Gray's Manual of Botany, 8th ed (New York: Van Nostrand
Reinhold Company,1950;1970) |
| GROSE |
Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London: S. Hooper, 1785; rpt 1968) |
| HARRAP |
Harrap's New Standard French and English Dictionary, 2 parts, 3 vols. (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1972) |
| JOYCE |
P.W. Joyce, English as We Speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1910) |
| Labrador Inuit |
Rose Jeddore, ed Labrador Inuit: Uqausingit (Nain: The Labrador Inuit Committee on Literacy,
1976) |
| LEIM & SCOTT |
A. H. Leim and W.B. Scott, Fishes of the Atlantic Coast of Canada (Ottwa: Fisheries
Research Board of Canada, Bulletin No. 155, 1966) |
| LEMOINE |
Geo. Lemoine, Dictionnaire français montagnais avec un vocabulaire montagnais-anglais
(Boston: W.B. Cabot and P. Cabot, 1901) |
| LEWIS & SHORT |
A Latin Dictionary, eds Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (Oxford: At the Clarendon
Press,1879; rpt 1955) |
| Ling Atlas Scot |
The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, Scots Section, 2 vols., eds J.Y. Mather and H.H. Speitel
(London: Croom Heim, 1975; 1977) |
| LUBBOCK |
Basil Lubbock, The Arctic Whalers (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1937; rpt 1968) |
| MASSIGNON |
Geneviève Massignon, Les parlers français d'Acadie; enquête linguistique, 2 vols. (Paris: C.
Klincksieck [1962]) |
| MED |
Middle English Dictionary, eds Hans Kurath, Sherman M.Kuhn, John Reidy and others, A-O (Ann
Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 1956-1980) |
| 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 others,12 vols. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press,
1884-1928; corrected reissue, 1933) |
| 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,
2 vols., A-N (Oxford: At the Clarendon
Press, 1972; 1976) |
| PARTRIDGE |
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 4th ed, revised, ed Eric Partridge
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1951; rpt 1956) |
| PEACOCK |
English-Eskimo Dictionary, ed F.W. Peacock (St John's: Memorial University, [1974]) |
| PHILLIPPS |
K.C. Phillipps, Westcountry Words & Ways (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1976) |
| PIERCE |
Wesley George Pierce, Goin' Fishin' The Story of the Deep-Sea Fishermen of New England
(Salem: Marine Research Society, 1934) |
| 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) |
| Shetland Truck System |
Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Truck
System (Shetland) (Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1872; rpt 1978) |
| 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) |
| Trésor de la langue française |
Trésor de la langue française; Dictionnaire de la langue du XIX et du XX
siècle (1789-1960), [directed by] Paul Imbs (Paris: Editions du centre national de la
recherche scientifique, 1971-) |
| WILCOCKS |
J.C. Wilcocks, The Sea-fisherman, 2nd ed (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868) |
