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1.
Paradigms lost : reflections on literacy and its decline
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Simon, John Ivan
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New York : C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, c1980.
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The English language and images of matter
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Quirk, Randolph
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London, Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Famous last words : the American language crisis reconsidered
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Daniels, Harvey, 1947-
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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1983.
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A Dictionary of American idioms
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Woodbury, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, inc., c1975.
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American English
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Marckwardt, Albert Henry, 1903-1975
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
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Oxford American dictionary
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
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The Oxford American dictionary and language guide
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Random House Webster's basic dictionary of American English
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New York : Random House, c1998.
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The dixie-doodle dictionary : how to understand a southerner
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Moon, Jake
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New York : Two Continents/Piasa Publications, [1977]
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American talk : where our words come from
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Dillard, J. L. (Joey Lee), 1924-
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New York : Random House, c1976.
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Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases
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Whiting, Bartlett Jere, 1904-1995
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.
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Grammar and good taste : reforming the American language
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Baron, Dennis E.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c1982.
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Listening to America : an illustrated history of words and phrases from our lively and splendid past
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Flexner, Stuart Berg
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New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982.
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Varieties of American English : essays
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McDavid, Raven Ioor
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1980.
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Dialects of American English
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Reed, Carroll E.
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Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.
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Cambridge dictionary of American English
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1999], c2000.
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The Oxford American dictionary of current English
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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1999.
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Random House Webster's dictionary of American English
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New York : Random House, [1996], cc1997.
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Saying what you mean : a commonsense guide to American usage
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Claiborne, Robert
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New York : W.W. Norton, c1986.
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What's happening to American English?
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Tibbetts, A. M.
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New York : Scribner, c1978.
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The American heritage guide to contemporary usage and style
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2005.
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Readings in American dialectology
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Allen, Harold Byron, 1902-
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New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1971]
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The Cambridge guide to English usage
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Peters, Pam
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Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Speaking freely : a guided tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley
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Flexner, Stuart Berg
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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Toward a social history of American English
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Dillard, J. L. (Joey Lee), 1924-
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Berlin ; New York : Mouton, c1985.
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Do you speak American? : a companion to the PBS television series
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MacNeil, Robert, 1931-
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New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
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American English : dialects and variation
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Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
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Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
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How we talk : American regional English today
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Metcalf, Allan A.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.
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American English : dialects and variation
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Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
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Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
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Attitudes toward English usage : the history of a war of words
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Finegan, Edward, 1940-
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New York : Teachers College Press, 1980.
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Mighty fine words and smashing expressions : making sense of transatlantic English
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Hargraves, Orin
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Street talk -2- : Slang used by teens, rappers, surfers, & popular American television shows
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Burke, David, 1956-
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Los Angeles : Optima PrePress, c1992.
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A concise pronouncing dictionary of British and American English
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Lewis, Jack Windsor, 1926-
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London : Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Language in America
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Laird, Charlton Grant, 1901-
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New York, World Pub. Co. [1970]
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The Columbia guide to standard American English
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Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth George), 1923-
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New York : Columbia University Press, 1993.
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The new comprehensive American rhyming dictionary
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Young, Sue, 1932-
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New York : W. Morrow, 1991.
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American talk : the words and ways of American dialects
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Hendrickson, Robert, 1933-
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New York, NY : Viking, 1986.
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New dictionary of American slang
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Chapman, Robert L., 1920-2002
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New York : Harper & Row, c1986.
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Studies in area linguistics
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Kurath, Hans, 1891-
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Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1972]
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A Dictionary of American idioms : based on the earlier edition
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New York : Barron's, c1987.
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A civil tongue
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Newman, Edwin
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Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1976.
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American English spelling : an informal description
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Cummings, D. W. (Donald Wayne), 1935-
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Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, c1988.
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Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century
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Ostler, Rosemarie
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Talking right : how conservatives turned liberalism into a tax-raising, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show
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Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1945-
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New York : PublicAffairs, c2006.
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Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in confrontational times
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Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1945-
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New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.
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Perfecting your English pronunciation
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Mansfield, Richard, Mrs
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New York : McGraw-Hill, c2012.
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African American English : a linguistic introduction
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Green, Lisa J., 1963-
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Nineteenth-century English
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Bailey, Richard W.
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
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Ok : the improbable story of America's greatest word
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Metcalf, Allan A.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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New words and a changing American culture
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Gozzi, Raymond
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Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1990.
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A dictionary of the underworld, British & American, being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs
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Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979
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London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1968.
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Black English : a seminar
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Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ; New York : distributed by Halsted Press Division of Wiley, 1976.
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Pocket Oxford American dictionary
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Concise Oxford American dictionary
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
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The elephants of style : a trunkload of tips on the big issues and gray areas of contemporary American English
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Walsh, Bill (William F.)
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New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
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Modern American usage; a guide
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Follett, Wilson, 1887-1963
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New York : Hill and Wang, 1998.
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21st century American English compendium : a guidebook for translators, interpreters, writers, editors, and advanced language students
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Rubinstein, Marvin
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Rockville, MD : Schreiber Pub., c1997.
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Good words to you : an all-new dictionary and native's guide to the unknown American language
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Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
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New York : Harper & Row, c1987.
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The Oxford student's dictionary of American English
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
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All-American English
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Dillard, J. L. (Joey Lee), 1924-
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New York : Random House, [1975]
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Thesaurus of American slang
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Chapman, Robert L., 1920-2002
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New York : Harper & Row, c1989.
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Never enough words : how Americans invented expressions as ingenious, ornery, and colorful as themselves
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McQuain, Jeff, 1955-
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New York : Random House, 1999.
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Teaching and evaluating writing in the age of computers and high-stakes testing
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Whithaus, Carl
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Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
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Diccionario básico norteamericano
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Lincolnwood, Ill. : National Textbook Co., c1989.
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Historical dictionary of American slang
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New York : Random House, 1994-[1997]
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Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care
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McWhorter, John H.
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New York : Gotham Books, 2003.
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Slang! : the topical dictionary of Americanisms
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Dickson, Paul
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New York : Walker & Co., c2006.
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MCAT verbal reasoning review notes
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New York, N.Y. : Kaplan, Inc., 2009.
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Dictionary of American slang
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New York, NY : Collins, c2007.
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Garner's modern American usage
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Garner, Bryan A.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Contemporary American slang : an up-to-date guide to the slang of modern American English
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Spears, Richard A.
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Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC Pub. Group, 2001.
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Dictionary of essential American slang
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Tse, Peter
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Berkley, CA : Optima books, c2000.
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Homophones and homographs : an American dictionary
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Hobbs, James B., 1930-
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Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1999.
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A dictionary of modern American usage
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Garner, Bryan A.
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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Reading early American handwriting
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Sperry, Kip
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Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1998.
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America in so many words : words that have shaped America
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Barnhart, David K.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
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Essential American idioms
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Spears, Richard A.
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Lincolnwood, Ill., USA : National Textbook Company, c1990.
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Voice and diction : a program for improvement
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Eisenson, Jon, 1907-
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New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1985.
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Common American phrases in everyday contexts : a detailed guide to real-life conversation and small talk
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Spears, Richard A.
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Lincolnwood, Ill. : National Textbook Co., c1992.
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Closing the achievement gap : how to reach limited-formal-schooling and long-term English learners
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Freeman, Yvonne S.
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Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2002.
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In other words : making better word choices in American English
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Bertram, Anne
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Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC Pub. Group, c1997.
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The Cambridge thesaurus of American English
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Lutz, William
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Dialect and language variation
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Orlando, Fla. : Academic Press, 1986.
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Because writing matters : improving student writing in our schools
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National Writing Project (U.S.)
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San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2003.
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An acoustic analysis of vowel variation in New World English
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Thomas, Erik R.
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[Durham, NC] : Published by Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, c2001.
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Alternatives to grading student writing
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Urbana, Ill : National Council of Teachers of English, c1997.
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Idiom savant : slang as it is slung
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Dunn, Jerry Camarillo
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New York : Henry Holt, 1997.
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The dictionary of cultural literacy
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Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928-
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
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The word on the street : fact and fable about American English
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McWhorter, John H.
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New York : Plenum Trade, c1998.
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How the Irish invented slang : the secret language of the crossroads
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Cassidy, Daniel
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Petrolia, Calif. : Counter Punch ; Edinburgh : AK, c2007.
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In the middle : new understandings about writing, reading, and learning
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Atwell, Nancie
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Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, c1998.
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What's a schwa sound anyway? : a holistic guide to phonetics, phonics, and spelling
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Wilde, Sandra
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Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1997.
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A preface to literacy : an inquiry into pedagogy, practice, and progress
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Tuman, Myron C., 1946-
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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1987.
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Language : introductory readings
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Clark, Virginia P.
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1977.
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Radicals in the university
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Ericson, Edward E.
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Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c1975.
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Communication skills for the foreign-born professional
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Barnes, Gregory Allen
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Philadelphia : ISI Press, c1982.
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow : how maps name, claim, and inflame
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Monmonier, Mark S.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Spoken soul : the system, source, and significance of Black vernacular
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Rickford, John R., 1949-
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New York : Wiley, 2000.
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Nativism reborn? : the official English language movement and the American states
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Tatalovich, Raymond
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Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
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American newspeak : the mangling of meaning for power and profit
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Grytting, Wayne
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Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, c2002.
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