The American Language/Bibliography 1
[A few duplications will be found here. I have thought it better to make them than to use cross-references. In three or four cases works listed are marked not published. I have examined all of these; they will be published later on.]
A. F. L.: English As She Is Spoke, Baltimore Evening Sun, Nov. 18, 1920.
Aldington, Richard: English and American, Poetry, May, 1920.
Alford, Henry: A Plea for the Queens English; London, 1863.
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Anon.: American English (in America From a French Point of View; London, 1897).
——: Art. Americanisms, Everyman Encyclopaedia, ed. by Andrew Boyle; London, n. d.
——: Art. Americanisms, New International Encyclopaedia, 2nd ed., ed. by F. M. Colby and Talcott Williams; New York, 1917.
——: Americanisms, a Study of Words and Manners, Southern Review, vol. ix, p. 290 and p. 529.
——: Americanisms, Academy, March 2, 1889.
——: Americanisms, Southern Literary Messenger, Oct., 1848.
——: British Struggles With Our Speech, Literary Digest, June 19, 1915.
——: I Speak United States, Saturday Review, Sept. 22, 1894.
——: Our Strange New Language, Literary Digest, Sept. 16, 1916.
——: Progress of Refinement, New York Organ, May 29, 1847.
——: Some So-called Americanisms, All the Year Round, vol. 1xxvi, p. 38.
——: The American English, Critic, vol. xiii, p. 115.
——: The American Language, Putnam’s Magazine, Nov., 1870.
——: The Great American Language, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 1viii, p. 363.
——: They Spake With Diverse Tongues, Atlantic Monthly, July, 1909.
——: To Teach the American Tongue in Britain, Literary Digest, Aug. 9, 1913.
——: Triumphant Americanisms, New York Evening Post, June 11, 1921.
Archer, William: America and the English Language, Pall Mall Magazine, Oct., 1898.
——: The American Language (in America To-day; New York, 1899).
Ayres, Harry Morgan: The English Language in America (in The Cambridge History of American Literature; New York, 1921, vol. iv).
Bache, Richard Meade: Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech, 2nd ed.; Phila., 1869.
Baker, Franklin T.: The Vernacular (in Munros Principles of Secondary Education; New York, 1915, ch. ix).
Barentz, A. E.: Woordenboek der Engelsche Spreektaal and Americanisms Amsterdam, 1894.
Barringer, G. A.: Étude sur IAnglais parlé aux États Unis (la Langue Améri-caine), Actes de la Société Philologique de Paris, March, 1874.
Bendelari, George: Curiosities of American Speech, New York Sun, Nov., 1895.
Benet, W. C.: Americanisms: English as Spoken and Written in the United States; Abbeville (S. C.), 1880.
Bicknall, Frank N.: The Yankee in British Fiction, Outlook, vol. xcvi, 1910.
Bowen, Edwin W.: Briticisms vs. Americanisms, Popular Science Monthly, vol. 1xix, p. 324.
——: Questions at Issue in Our English Speech; New York, 1914.
Bradley, W. A.: In Shakespeares America, Harper’s Magazine, Aug., 1915.
Bristed, Charles A.: The English Language in America (in Cambridge Essays; London, 1855).
Bryant, William Cullen: Index Expurgatorius (reprinted in Helpful Hints in Writing and Reading, by Grenville Kleiser; New York, 1911, p. 15).
Burton, Richard: American English (in Literary Likings; Boston, 1899).
Carter, Alice P.: American English, Critic, vol. xii, p. 97.
Channing, William Ellery: The American Language and Literature, North American Review, Sept., 1815.
Charters, W. W. (and Edith Miller): A Course of Study in Grammar Based Upon the Grammatical Errors of School Children of Kansas City, Mo., University of Missouri Bulletin, vol. xvi, No. 2, Jan., 1915.
Chesterton, Cecil: British Struggles With Our Speech (summary of art. in New Witness), Literary Digest, June 19, 1915.
Chubb, Percival: The Menace of Pedantry in the Teaching of English, School Review, vol. xx, Jan., 1912.
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain): Concerning the American Language (in The Stolen White Elephant; New York, 1888).
Coxe, A. Cleveland: Americanisms in England, Forum, Oct., 1886.
Crane, W. W.: The American Language, Putnam’s Monthly, vol. xvi, p. 519.
Crosland, T. W.: The Abounding American; London, 1907.
Darling, Gertrude: Standards in English, Education, vol. xvii, p. 331.
Dilnot, Frank: The Written and Spoken Word (in The New America; New York, 1919).
Eggleston, Edward: Wild Flowers of English Speech in America, Century Magazine, April, 1894.
Field, Eugene: London letter in Chicago News, March 10, 1890.
Flūgel, Felix: Die Englische Philologie in Nordamerika, Gersdorf’s Repertorium, 1852.
——: Die Englische Sprache in Nordamerika, Archiv fūr das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, band iv, heft i; Braunschweig, 1848.
Fowler, H. W. (and F. G. Fowler): The Kings English, 2nd ed.; Oxford, 1908. Fowler, Wm. C.: The English Language, 2nd ed.; New York, 1855.
Freeman, Edward A.: Some Points in American Speech and Customs, Longmans’ Magazine, Nov., 1882.
Gerek, William (and others): Is There Really Such a Thing as the American Language? New York Sun, March 10, 1918.
Gould, Edward S.: Good English New York, 1867.
Grandgent, C. H.: English in America, Die Neueren Sprachen, vol. ii, p. 243 and p. 520.
Hall, Fitzward: Sundry Americanisms, Nation, vol. 1vii, p. 484.
——: Americanisms Again, Academy, vol. x1vii, p. 278.
——: The American Dialect, Academy, vol. x1iii, p. 265.
——: English, Rational and Irrational, Nineteenth Century, Sept., 1880.
——: Modern English; New York, 1873.
——: Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; New York, 1872.
Hartt, Irene Widdemar: Americanisms, Education, vol. xiii, p. 367.
Hastings, Basil MacDonald: More Americanisms (interview), New York Tribune, Jan. 19, 1913.
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworţh: English and American Phrases, Independent, vol. 1ii, p. 410.
——: English and American Speech, Harper’s Bazar, vol. xxx, p. 958.
Hill, Adams Sherman: Our English; New York, 1889.
Hodgins, Joseph L.: Our Common Speech, New York Sun, March 1, 1918.
Holliday, Robert Cortes: Caunt Speak the Language (in Walking-Stick Papers; New York, 1918, p. 201).
Howells, William Dean: The Editors Study, Harper’s Magazine, Jan., 1886.
Hughes, Rupert: Our Statish Language, Harper’s Magazine, May, 1920.
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J. D. J.: American Conversation, English Journal, April, 1913.
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——: Shakespeares Americanisms (in Certain Accepted Heroes; New York, 1897).
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——: The English of America, International Review, vol. viii, p. 472.
——: A History of the English Language, revised ed.; New York, 1907.
——: Linguistic Causes of Americanisms, Harper’s Magazine, June, 1913.
——: Scotticisms and Americanisms, Harper’s Magazine, Feb., 1913.
——: The Standard of Usage in English; New York and London, n. d.
——: What Americanisms Are Not, Harper’s Magazine, March, 1913.
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Mackintosh, Duncan: Essai Raisonné sur la Grammaire et la Prononciation Anglaise Boston, 1797.
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Matthews, Brander: Americanisms and Briticisms New York, 1892.
——: American English and British English (in Essays on English, New York, 1921.)
——: Outskirts of the English Language, Munsey’s Magazine, Nov., 1913.
——: Parts of Speech; New York, 1901.
——: Why Not Speak Your Own Language? Delineator, Nov., 1917.
Mead, Theo. H.: Our Mother Tongue; New York, 1890.
Mencken, H. L.: The American: His Language, Smart Set, Aug., 1913.
——: The American Language Again, New York Evening Mail, Nov. 22, 1917.
——: American Pronouns, Baltimore Evening Sun, Oct. 25, 1910.
——: How They Say It Over There, New York Evening Mail, Oct. 25, 1917.
——: More American, Baltimore Evening Sun, Oct. 20, 1910.
——: Moulding Our Speech, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 18, 1917.
——: Notes on the American Language, Baltimore Evening Sun, Sept. 7, 1916.
——: The Two Englishes, Baltimore Evening Sun, Sept. 15, 1910.
Molee, Elias: Nu Tutonish, an International Union Language; Tacoma, 1906.
——: Plea for an American Language Chicago, 1888.
——: Pure Saxon English; or, Americans to the Front; Chicago, 1890.
——: Tutonish; Tacoma (Wash.), n. d.
——: Tutonish, or, Anglo-German Union Tongue; Chicago, 1902.
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——: English and American-English, New York Tribune, Aug. 14, 1881.
——: English As She is Spoke in America, Knowledge, vol. vi, p. 319.
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——: Studies in English; New York, 1867.
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——: American English (in Our Common Speech; New York, 1895).
——: American English, North American Review, April, 1883.
——: American English, a Paper Read Before the Albany Institute, July 6, 1882, With Revision and Additions; Albany, 1883.
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——: Americanisms, parts i-viii, Atlantic Monthly, April, May, July, Sept., Nov., 1878; Jan., March, May, 1879.
——: British Americanisms, Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880.
——: Every-Day English Boston, 1880.
——: Some Alleged Americanisms, Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1883.
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