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

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Jones, David D.: The Surnames of the Chinese in America; San Francisco, 1904.
Judson, Amos M.: A Grammar of American Surnames; Washington, 1898.
King, Marquis Fayette: Changes in Names By Special Acts of the Legislature of Maine, 1820-1895; Portland, Me., 1901.
Kuhns, L. Oscar: The Origin of Pennsylvania Surnames, Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. lix, p. 395, March, 1897.
——: Studies in Pennsylvania German Family Names; New York, 1902.
Latham, Edward: A Dictionary of Names, Nicknames and Surnames; London, 1904.
Lower, M. A.: Patronymica Britannica; London,1860.
McKenna, L. B.: Surnames, Their Origin and Nationality; Quincy (III.), 1913.
Oliphant, Samuel Grant: The Clan of Fire and Forge, or, The Ancient and Honorable Smiths; Olivet (Mich.), 1910.
——: Surnames in Baltimore, Baltimore Sunday Sun, 62 weekly articles, Dec. 2, 1906-Jan. 26, 1908, inc.; index, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 1908.
Pearson, T. R.: The Origin of Surnames, Good Words, June, 1897.
Quigley, Hugh: A Vocabulary of Ancient and Modern Irish Family Names (in The Irish Race in California; San Francisco, 1878).
Rupp, Israel D.: A Collection of… Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd rev. ed.; Phila., 1876.
——: General Remarks on the Origin of Surnames; Harrisburg, Pa., 1856.
Saurusaitis, Peter: List of Lithuanian Family Names; Shenandoah, Pa., 1908.
Schele de Vere, Maximilian: A Few Virginia Names, Modern Language Notes, vol. ii, p. 145 and p. 193.
Searle, William G.: Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum; Cambridge, 1897.
Tolman, A. H.: English Surnames (in The Views About Hamlet; Boston, 1904).
Weekley, Ernest: Surnames; London, 1916.

10. Non-English Languages in America
 
 

a. German
 
Aurand, Ammon M.: Aurand’s Collection of Pennsylvania German Stories and Poems; Beaver Springs, pa., 1916.
Beidelman, William: The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans,… Their Origin, Their History and Their Dialect; Easton, pa., 1898.
Bonneheur, Armin de: Pennsylvania Dutch, Nation, vol. lxvii, p. 482.
Faust, A. B.: Non-English Writings: I. German (in Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. iv, p. 572; New York, 1921).
Fischer, H. L.: Kurzwell and Zeitfertreib; York, pa., 1882.
Fogel, Edwin Miller: Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans; Philadelphia, 1915.
Fuchs, Meik, pseud.: Dreiguds un Noschens; Milwaukee, 1898.
Haldeman, S. S.: Pennsylvania Dutch…; Phila., 1872.
Harbaugh, H.: Harbaugh’s Harfe, rev. ed.; Phila., 1902.