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Books

Amberg, Julie S., and Deborah J. Vause.
American English: History, Structure, and Usage
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Askwith, Richard.
Feet in the Clouds: The Classic Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
. London: Aurum Press, (reissue) 2013.

Austen, Jane.
Emma
. New York: Penguin Classics, 2010.

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Pride and Prejudice
. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

Bailey, Richard W.
Speaking American: A History of English in the United States
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Baron, Dennis E.
Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Bickerton, Anthea.
American English, English American: A Two-Way Glossary of Words in Daily Use on Both Sides of the Atlantic
. Bristol: Abson Books, 1973.

Bolton, W. F., and David Crystal, eds.
The English Language, Volume 1: Essays by English and American Men of Letters 1490–1839.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.

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The English Language, Volume 2: Essays by English and American Men of Letters 1490–1839.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Bradley, Ian, ed.
The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Bragg, Melvyn.
The Adventure of English: 500 AD to 2000, The Biography of a Language.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.

Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson.
Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Carey, Gordon Vero.
American into English: A Handbook for Translators
. London: William Heinemann, 1953.

Clark, Alan.
Diaries
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.

Cooke, Alistair.
Letter from America
. London: Penguin, 2007.

Crystal, David.
The Story of English in 100 Words
. London: Profile Books, 2011.

Deutscher, Guy.
Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World
. London: William Heinemann, 2010.

Dickens, Charles.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.

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American Notes.
London: Granville Publishing, 1985. Originally published by Chapman and Hall in the complete works of Dickens, 1892.

Dohan, Mary Helen.
Our Own Words
. Baltimore: Penguin, 1975.

Fellowes, Julian.
Snobs
. London: Phoenix, 2012.

Fiske, Robert Hartwell.
The Dictionary of Disagreeable English: A Curmudgeon’s Compendium of Excruciatingly Correct Grammar
. New York: Writer’s Digest Books, 2004.

Fox, Kate.
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.

Fowler, H. W., and F. G. Fowler.
The King’s English
. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

Gill, A. A.
The Angry Island: Hunting the English
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005.

Gladwell, Malcolm.
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
. New York: Little, Brown, 2013.

Gorham, Maurice.
The Local.
London: Little Toller Books, 2010.

Haydon, Peter.
The English Pub: A History
. London: Robert Hale, 1994.

Hendrickson, Robert.
Yankee Talk: A Dictionary of New England Expressions
. New York: Facts on File, 1996.

Hitchings, Henry.
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
. London: John Murray, 2011.

Humphrys, John.
Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language
. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005.

Hutton, Robert.
Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News
. London: Elliott and Thompson, 2013.

James, Lawrence.
The Middle Class: A History.
London: Little, Brown, 2006.

Krapp, George Philip.
The English Language in America, Volume One
. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1925.

Le Faye, Deirdre, ed.
Jane Austen’s Letters
. London: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Lyall, Sarah.
A Field Guide to the British
. London: Quercus, 2008.

Mathews, Mitford M.
Americanisms: A Dictionary of Selected Americanisms on Historical Principles
. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1966.

McWhorter, John.
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English.
New York: Gotham Books, 2008.

Mencken, H. L.
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, the Fourth Edition and the Two Supplements,
abridged, with annotations and new material by Raven I. McDavid, Jr., with the assistance of David W. Maurer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.

Metcalf, Allan.
OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Michaels, Leonard, and Christopher Ricks, eds.
The State of the Language.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. M. F. K. Fisher’s “As the Lingo Languishes,” pages 267–76.

Mussey, Barrows, ed.
Yankee Life by Those Who Lived It: The Essence of Old New England Captured from the Writings of the People Who Created It.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

Partridge, Eric, and John W. Clark.
British and American English Since 1900
. London: Andrew Dakers, 1951.

Petrow, Steven, with Sally Chew.
Complete Gay and Lesbian Manners: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life
. New York: Workman, 2011.

Quinn, Jim.
American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language
. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

Scott, William Rufus.
The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America
. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1916.

Smith, Jeremy.
Bum Bags and Fanny Packs: A British-American American-British Dictionary
. New York: Carroll & Graff, 2006.

Thody, Philip.
Don’t Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden
. London: Athlone Press, 1997.

Trollope, Fanny.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
. London, Penguin, 1997. First published in 1832.

Walmsley, Jane.
Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide
, second revised edition. New York: Penguin, 2003.

Walpole, Hugh.
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre
. London: Macmillan, 1925.

Waugh, Auberon.
Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh: An Autobiography
. London: Century, 1991.

Waugh, Evelyn.
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh.
New York: Little, Brown, 1998.

Webster, Noah.
A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings on Moral, Historical, Political and Literary Subjects.
Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1790.

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A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
. 1806.

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An American Dictionary of the English Language
. New Haven: published by the author, 1841.

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American Spelling Book
. London: Applewood Books, reprint edition 1999.

Weekley, Ernest.
The English Language, with a Chapter on the History of American English by John W. Clark.
London: A. Deutsch, 1952.

Wild, J. Henry.
Glimpses of the American Language and Civilization
. Bern: A. Francke, 1945.

Young, Toby.
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.
London: Little, Brown, 2001.

Yule, Henry, and A. C. Burnell.
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India, A Selected Edition
. Edited by Kate Teltscher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Blogs

Dixon, Thomas. “The History of Emotions Blog.” http://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/.

Fogarty, Mignon. “Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips.” http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl.

Liberman, Mark. “Language Log.” http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/.

Martin, Gary. “The Phrase Finder.” http://www.phrases.org.uk.

Monroe, Jack. “A Girl Called Jack.” http://agirlcalledjack.com.

Murphy, Lynne. “Separated by a Common Language.” http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk.

Wicks, Kevin, ed. BBC America’s “Mind the Gap: A Brit’s Guide to Surviving America.” http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap.

Yagoda, Ben. “Not One-Off Britishisms.” http://britishisms.wordpress.com.

Periodicals

The Daily Mail

The Economist

The Financial Times

The Guardian

HELLO!

National Journal

The New Yorker

The New York Times

Stylist

Vogue

Websites

BBC Archive’s first-person accounts of life in WWII: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/92/a1110592.shtml.

BBC Lab UK’s Great British Class Survey: https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class.

Debrett’s: http://www.debretts.com.

Macmillan Dictionary: www.macmillandictionary.com.

Ordnance Survey: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk.

Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com.

Urban Dictionary: www.urbandictionary.com.

World Wide Words:
www.worldwidewords.org.

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