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H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.

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Williams, Ralph O.: Some Peculiarities, Real and Supposed, in American English (in Our Dictionaries and Other English Language Topics; New York, 1890).
Witherspoon, John: various notes on Americanisms in vol. iv of his Works; Phila., 1801.

2. Dictionaries of Americanisms
 
Bartlett, John Russell: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States; New York, 1848; 2nd ed., enlarged, Boston, 1859; 3rd ed., 1860; 4th ed., 1877.
Beck, T. Romeyn: Notes on Mr. Pickering’s Vocabulary,… Transactions of the Albany Institute, vol. i, 1830.
Clapin, Sylva: A New Dictionary of Americanisms…; New York, 1902.
Elwyn, A. L.: A Glossary of Supposed Americanisms…; Phila., 1859.
Fallows, Samuel: Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, etc. (in Synonyms and Antonyms; New York, 1886).
——: Handbook of Briticisms, Americanisms, Colloquial and Provincial Words and Phrases; Chicago, 1883.
Farmer, John S.: Americanisms Old and New…; London, 1889.
Hagar, George J. (ed.): Dictionary of Americanisms (in New Universities Dictionary; New York, 1915).
Halliwell-Phillips, J. O.: A Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms, Containing Words Now Obsolete in England, All of Which Are Familiar and in Common Use in America; 2nd ed.; London, 1850.
Keijzer, M.: Woordenboek van Amerikanismen…; Gorinchem (Holland), 1854.
Koehler, F.: Wörterbuch der Amerikanismen…; Leipzig, 1866.
Pickering, John: A Vocabulary or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America…; Boston, 1816.
Thornton, Richard H.: An American Glossary,… 2 vols.; Phila. and London, 1912.

3. The Process of Language Growth
 
A. H. N.: Some New “American Words,” Dial, vol. xiv, p. 302.
Anon.: Political Americanisms, Saturday Review, vol. 1x, p. 709.
——: The Decay of Syntax, London Times Supplement, May 8, 1919, p. 1.
——: Words Popularized by the Bicycle, New York Times Saturday Review, Aug. 7, 1897.
Bergen, Fanny D.: Folk-Names of Animals, Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. xii, p. 291.
——: Popular American Plant-Names, Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. v, p. 89.
Bergström, G. A.: On Blendings of Synonyms or Cognate Expressions in English; Lund (Sweden), 1906.
Bradley, Henry: The Making of English; London, 1904.