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

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Rice, William O.: The Pioneer Dialect of Southern Illinois, Dialect Notes, vol. ii, p. 225.
Ruppenthal, J. C.: A Word-List From Kansas, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 101 and p. 319.
Weeks, R. L.: Notes From Missouri, Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 235.
 

f. The Far West
 
Bruner, Helen (and Frances Francis): A Short Word-List From Wyoming, Dialect Notes, vol. iii, p. 550.
Chapin, Florence A.: Spanish Words That Have Become Westernisms, Editor, July 25, 1917.
Garrett, R. M.: A Word-List From the Northwest, Dialect Notes, vol. v, p. 54 and p. 80.
Harvey, Bartlett: A Word-List From the Northwest, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 26 and p. 162.
Hayden, Marie Gladys: A Word-List From Montana, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 243.
Lehman, Benjamin H.: A Word-List From the Northwestern United States, Dialect Notes, vol. v, p. 22.
McLean, John: Western Americanisms (in The Indians: Their Manners and Customs; Toronto, 1889).
Man, A. P., Jr.: Arizona Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 164.
 

g. The Colonies
 
Dunlap, Maurice P.: What Americans Talk in the Philippines, American Review of Reviews, Aug., 1913.
 

h. Negro-English
 
Fruit, J. P. (and C. H. Grandgent): Uncle Remus in Phonetic Spelling, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 196.
Grade, P.: Das Neger-Englisch, Anglia, vol. xiv, p. 362.
Harrison, James A.: Negro-English, Modern Language Notes, vol. vii, p. 123.
——: Negro English, Proc. American Philological Association, 1885.
Lloyd, John Uri: The Language of the Kentucky Negro, Dialect Notes, vol. ii, p. 179.
Thom, William Taylor: Some Paralleliŝms Between Shakespeare’s English and the Negro-English of the United States, Shakespeariana, vol. i, p. 129.

7. Spelling
 
Allen, F. Sturges: Principles of Spelling Reform; New York, 1907.
Anderson, William W.: The Craze for Wrong Spelling, Dial, vol. xix, p. 173.
Anon.: Another Spelling Standard, Journal of Education, vol. x1ii, p. 436.
——: English Spelling and the Movement to Improve It (Part 1 of Handbook of Simplified Spelling, Simplified Spelling Board); New York, 1919.
——: The Case for Simplified Spelling (Part 2 of Handbook of Simplified Spelling, Simplified Spelling Board); New York, 1920.