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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. |