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

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Lee, Francis B.: Jerseyisms; Trenton, 1889.
Ralph, Julian: The Language of the Tenement Folk, Harper’s Weekly, vol. x1i, p. 90.
White, Henry Adelbert: A Word-List From Central New York, Dialect Notes, vol. iii, p. 565.
Zimmermann, H. E.: Maryland Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 343.
 

d. The South
 
Allen, F. Sturges: Florida Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 344.
Andrews, Eliza Frances: Cracker English, Chautauquan, vol. xxiii, p. 85.
Bolton, Henry Carrington: The Pronunciation of Folk-Names in South Carolina, Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. iv, p. 270.
Bourke, Henry M.: Language and Folk Usage of the Rio Grande Valley, Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. ix, p. 81.
Brown, Calvin S., Jr.: Dialectical Survivals in Tennessee, Modern Language Notes, vol. iv, p. 409.
——: Other Dialectical Forms in Tennessee, Pub. Modern Language Assoc., vol. vi, p. 171.
——: Tennessee Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 345.
Carr, J. W.: A List of Words from Northwest Arkansas, Dialect Notes, vol. ii, p. 416; vol. iii, p. 68 and p. 124; vol. iii, p. 205 and p. 392.
Combs, J. H.: A Word List From the South, Dialect Notes, vol. v, p. 31.
——: Old, Early and Elizabethan English in the Southern Mountains, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 283.
Crow, C. L.: Texas Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 347.
Crumb, D. S.: The Dialect of Southeastern Missouri, Dialect Notes, vol. ii, p. 304.
Dingus, L. R.: A Word-List From Virginia, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 177.
Edson, H. A. (and others): Tennessee Mountains Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 370.
Fruit, John P.: Kentucky Words, Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 229.
——: Kentucky Words and Phrases, Dialect Notes,, vol. i, p. 63.
Green, B. W.: Word-book of Virginia Folk-speech; Richmond, 1899.
Hancock, Elizabeth H.: Southern Speech, Neale’s Monthly, Nov., 1913.
Kephart, Horace: The Mountain Dialect (in our Southern Highlanders; New York, 1913).
——: A Word-List From the Mountains of Western North Carolina, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 407.
Lang, Henry R.: Zu den Charleston Provincialisms, Phonetische Studien, vol. ii, p. 185.
Lloyd, John Uri: The Language of the Kentucky Negro, Dialect Notes, vol. ii, p. 179.
Man, A. P., Jr.: Virginia Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 158.
Morley, Margaret W.: The Speech of the Mountains (in The Carolina Mountains; Boston, 1913).
Payne, L. W., Jr.: A Word-List From East Alabama, Dialect Notes, vol. iii, p. 279.
——: A Word-List From Alabama; Austin (Texas), 1909.