American English compendium : a portable guide to the idiosyncrasies, subtleties, technical lingo, and nooks and crannies of American English / by Rubinstein, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…American spoken here, English understood -- Proverbs, slogans, and aphorisms -- Popular American expressions -- Proverbial commentaries -- Similes and metaphors indicating extremes -- A pronounced difference -- American slang and colloquialisms -- Oddball American English words -- British vs. American English (and vice versa) -- Worldwide English -- Foreign words and phrases frequently used in English -- Common American legal terms -- Common American medical terms -- Business colloquialisms, slang, and acronyms -- Neologisms -- Acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms -- Acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms in the computer, internet, and communications industries -- From where do you hail? …”
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The elephants of style : a trunkload of tips on the big issues and gray areas of contemporary American English / by Walsh, Bill

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Handbook of African American psychology /

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The handbook of dialectology /

Table of Contents: “…Paolillo -- Statistics for aggregate variationist analyses / John Nerbonne and Martijn Wieling -- Spatial statistics for dialectology / Jack Grieve -- Dialects of British and southern hemisphere English / Kevin Watson -- Dialects of North American English / Charles Boberg -- Dialects of German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages / Sebastian Kürschner -- Dialects of French / Damien Hall -- Dialects of Italy / Tullio Telmon -- Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese / John M. …”
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The handbook of English pronunciation /

Table of Contents: “…Pronunciation of the major varieties of English 13. North American English (Charles Boberg, Canada) 14. British English (Clive Upton, UK) 15. …”
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The handbook of language contact /

Table of Contents: “…Contact and the development of American English / Joseph Salmons and Thomas Purnell -- 23. …”
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Here's how to do accent modification : a manual for speech-language pathologists / by McKinney, Robert (Speech-language pathologist)

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Guide for authors, translators, and copy-editors : IIIT style sheet. /

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Handbook of research on teaching literacy through the communicative and visual arts /

Table of Contents: “…/ Colette Daiute -- Bridging Home and School Literacies : Models for Culturally Responsive Teaching, a Case for African-American English / Carol D. Lee -- Student Conversations : Provocative Echoes / Eleanor Binstock -- Street Literacy / Dwight Conquergood -- Intergenerational Discourses : Life Texts of African-American Mothers and Daughters / Vivian L. …”
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Handbook of research on teaching literacy through the communicative and visual arts /

Table of Contents: “…/ Colette Daiute -- Bridging Home and School Literacies : Models for Culturally Responsive Teaching, a Case for African-American English / Carol D. Lee -- Student Conversations : Provocative Echoes / Eleanor Binstock -- Street Literacy / Dwight Conquergood -- Intergenerational Discourses : Life Texts of African-American Mothers and Daughters / Vivian L. …”
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