Reference books : a classified and annotated guide to the principal works of reference / compiled by John Minto.

  • Minto, John, 1863-1935
Date:
1929
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    [4th] ed., rev. and corr., w. many addns. x, 382 p. Chatto, 1874. PE3721 1st ed. publ. by J. C. Hotten under title “ Diet, of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words.” By a London antiquary (i.e. J. C. Hotten). 1859. Nares (R.). Glossary of words, phrases, names and allusions in the works of Engl, authors, partic. Shakespeare and his contemporaries. New ed., w. addns. . . . by J. O. Halliwell [Phillipps] and T. Wright. Routl., 1905. PE1650 Palmer (A. S.). Folk-etymology : diet, of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning by false derivation or mistaken analogy, xxviii, 664 p. Bell, 1882. PE 1584 Skeat (W. W.). Glossary of Tudor and Stuart wTords, esp. fr. the dramatists. Ed., w. addns., by A. L. Mayhew. xx, 462 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1914. PE1650 Stratmann (F. H.). Middle-English diet., 12th to 15th cent. Rev. and enl. by H. Bradley, xxiv, 708 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1891. PE686 Wright (J.), Ed. English dialect diet. 6 v. Frowde, 1898-1905. 4°. PE1770 Cpl. vocab. of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last 200 years. Founded on the publns. of the Engl. Dialect Soc., and material never before printed. Wright (T.). Diet, of obsolete and pro¬ vincial English. 2 v. Bell, 1886. PE1667 427(016) Bibliography. English Dialect Society. A bibliog. list of the works that have been publ. or are known to exist in ms., illus. of the various dialects of English. Ed. by W. W. Skeat and J. H. Nodal, viii, 201 p. Trilbner, 1873-7. Z2015 Heslop (R. 0.). Bibliog. list of works illus. of the dialect of Northumberland. 40 p. Engl. Dialect Soc., 1896. Z2015 [Sutton (C. W.)]. Catal of the English dialect library, Free Reference Library, Manchester. 2 pts. Manchester and Bond., 1880-88. Founded under the auspices of the E.D.S., and publ. for that Soc. 427.9 Africanderisms. Pettman (C.). Africanderisms : a glos¬ sary of S. African colloquial words and phrases, and of places and other names, xviii, 579 p. Longmans, 1913. PE[3401] Americanisms. Farmer (J. S.). Americanisms, old and new : a diet, of words, phrases and collo¬ quialisms peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, etc., their derivation, meaning and application. xx,564p. Priv.Pr., 1889. sm.4°. PE2837 Menchen (H. L.). The American lan¬ guage : an inquiry into the develt. of English in the United States. Rev. ed. xviii, 492 p. Jonathan Cape, 1922. roy. 8°. PE2809 The salient differences bet. the English of England and the English of America as spoken and written and in pronunciation and intona¬ tion. Contains an extensive bibliog. Thornton (R. H.). An American glos¬ sary. 2 v. Francis & Co. ; Philad., Lippincott, 1912. PE2837 “ An attempt to illus. certain Americanisms upon historical principles.” Over 80 per cent of the illus. quotations are half-a-century old. No attempt is made to register modern slang. Pref. Anglo-Indian. Yule {Sir H.) and Burnell (A. C.). Hobson- Jobson ; glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian wTords and phrases, etc. New ed. by W. Crooke. xlviii, 1021 p. Murray, 1903. PE[3501] Anglo-Manx. Moore (A. ¥/.). A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect. Comp, by A. W. Moore, with the co-operation of Sophia Morrison and Edmund Goodwin. xii, 206 p. Oxf. U.P., 1924. PE1932 Includes words of English origin found both in the Isle of Man and elsewhere ; words peculiar to the I.O.M. ; words whose spelling is peculiar to the I.O.M. ; Manx (Gaelic) words. Mr. Goodwin writes an introd. to the phonetics and has added the phonetic spellings in each case. Australian. Morris (E. E.). Austral English. 525 p. Macm., 1898. PE3601 Diet, of Australian words, phrases and usages with aboriginal-Australian and Maori words incorp. in the language, etc.