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

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McLean, John: Western Americanisms (in The Indians: Their Manners and Customs; Toronto, 1889, pp. 197-201)
Mott, L. F.: Canada Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 332
Tweedie, W. M.: British Maritime Provinces Word-List, Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 377
 

e. East Indian
 
Yule, Henry (and A. C. Burnell): Hobson-Jobson: a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive; new ed., ed. by Wm. Crooke; London, 1903
 

f. Pidgin-English
 
C. P. A.: Pigeon English ou Bichelamar, Revue de Linguistique, tome xlvi, p. 109 and p. 184
Dobson, William F.: Pidgin-English, Argosy, vol. lxxiii, p. 105
Lentzer, Karl: Worterbuch der Englischen Volkssprache Australiens und der Mischsprachen; Halle, 1891

12. Slang
 
A. F. L.: English As She Is Spoke, Baltimore Evening Sun, Nov. 18, 1920
Allen, E. A.: The Origin in Literature of Vulgarisms, Chautauquan, Nov., 1890
Andrews, Eliza Frances: Slang and Metaphor, Chautauquan, vol. xxiii, p. 462
Anon.: Dictionnaire des Termes Militaires et de l’Argot Poilu; Paris, 1916
——: French Soldier Slang, Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 28, 1919
——: L’Argot Poilu, Times Literary Supplement, July 27, 1916
——: The Philosophy of Slang, Littell’s Living Age, vol. ccxxiii, p. 324
——: Quick Lunch Lingo, Literary Digest, March 18, 1916
——: Slang in Our Colleges, Bookman, vol. v, p. 448
——: Supplement Comprising Words Coined, Introduced or Brought Into Popular Use During the Great War (in Cassell’s New English Dictionary; London, 1919)
——: War and the Language, Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 6, 1919
——: The War’s Verbal Bequest, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Oct. 20, 1919
——: Word-Coining and Slang, Living Age, July 13, 1907
Babbitt, E. H.: College Words and Phrases, Dialect Notes, vol. ii, p. 3
Barrere, Albert (and Chas. G. Leland): A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, 2 vols.; New York, 1889
Baumann, H.: Londonismen (Slang and Cant), 2nd ed.; Berlin, 1902
Bergmann, Karl: Wie der Feldgraue Spricht; Giessen, 1916
Bolwell, Robert: College Slang Words and Phrases, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 231
Bosson, Olaf E.: Slang and Cant in Jerome K. Jerome’s Works; Cambridge, England, 1911
Bowen, Edwin W.: What is Slang? Popular Science Monthly, vol. lxviii, p. 127
Conant, R. W.: Classic Slang, Dial, vol. xx, p. 63