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H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
Bibliography
1. General
[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 Queen’s English; London, 1863. |
Allen, Grant: Americanisms (in Chambers’ Encyclopaedia, new ed.; Phila., 1906, vol. i). |
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 Munro’s 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 I’Anglais 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 Shakespeare’s 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 King’s 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. |
Healy, J. F.: The American Language; Pittsburgh, 1910. |
Hempl, George: The Study of American English, Chautauquan, vol. xxii, p. 436. |
Herrig, Ludwig: Die Englische Sprache und Literatur in Nord-Amerika, Archiv fūr das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. xii, p. 241; vol. xiii, p. 76 and p. 241; vol. xiv, p. 1. |
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: Caun’t Speak the Language (in Walking-Stick Papers; New York, 1918, p. 201). |
Howells, William Dean: The Editor’s Study, Harper’s Magazine, Jan., 1886. |
Hughes, Rupert: Our Statish Language, Harper’s Magazine, May, 1920. |
Hurd, Seth T.: A Grammatical Corrector or Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech… Phila., 1847. |
J. D. J.: American Conversation, English Journal, April, 1913. |
James, Henry: Tĥe Question of Our Speech; Boston, 1905. |
Kartzke, Georg: Die Amerikanische Sprache, Archiv fūr das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 1921, p. 181. |
Knortz, Karl: Amerikanische Redensarten und Volksgebräuche, Leipzig, 1907. |
Krapp, George Philip: Modern English; New York, 1910. |
Lang, Andrew: Americanisms, London Academy, March 2, 1895. |
Lienemann, Oskar: Eigentūmlichkeiten des Engl. d. Vereinigten Staaten Nebst Wenig Bekannten Amerikanismen; Zittau, 1886. |
Lloyd, R. J.: Northern English; Leipzig, 1908. |
Lodge, Henry Cabot: The Origin of Certain Americanisms, Scribner’s Magazine, June, 1907. |
——: Shakespeare’s Americanisms (in Certain Accepted Heroes; New York, 1897). |
Lounsbury, Thomas R.: Americanisms Real or Reputed, Harper’s Magazine, Sept., 1913. |
Lounsbury, Thomas R.: Differences in English and American Usage, Harper’s Magazine, July, 1913. |
——: 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. |
Low, Sidney: Ought American to be Taught in Our Schools? Westminster Gazette, July 18, 1913. |
Lowell, James Russell: prefaces to The Biglow Papers, 1st and 2nd series; Cambridge, 1848–66. |
Mackay, Charles: The Ascertainment of English, Nineteenth Century, Jan., 1890. |
Mackintosh, Duncan: Essai Raisonné sur la Grammaire et la Prononciation Anglaise… Boston, 1797. |
Marshall, Archibald: American English and the English Language, North American Review, Nov., 1921. |
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. |
Moon, G. Washington: The Dean’s English, 7th ed.; New York, 1884. |
Newcomen, George: Americanisms and Archaisms, Academy, vol. x1vii, p. 317. |
Phipson, Evacustes A.: British vs. American English, Dialect Notes, vol. i, pt. i, 1889. |
Proctor, Richard A.: Americanisms, Knowledge, vol. vii, p. 171. |
——: English and American-English, New York Tribune, Aug. 14, 1881. |
——: “English As She is Spoke” in America, Knowledge, vol. vi, p. 319. |
Rambeau, A.: Amerikanisches, Die Neueren Sprachen, vol. ii, p. 53. |
Read, Richard P.: The American Language, New York Sun, March 7, 1918. |
Read, Richard P.: The American Tongue, New York Sun, Feb. 26, 1918. |
Russell, T. Baron: Current Americanisms; London, 1893. |
Schele de Vere, M.: Americanisms: the English of the New World; New York, 1872. |
——: Studies in English; New York, 1867. |
Schulz, Carl B.: The King’s English at Home, New York Evening Mail, Oct. 29, 1917. |
Shipman, Carolyn: The American Language, Critic, new series, vol. xxxvi, p. 81. |
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——: On the Study of Words; London, 1851; rev. ed., 1904. |
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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. |
Tuttle, R. M.: Americanisms, Athenæum, vol. i, p. 209. |
Untermeyer, Louis: Whitman and the American Language, New York Evening Post, May 31, 1919. |
Van der Voort, J. H.: Hedendaagsche Amerikanismen; Gouda (Holland), 1894. |
Wardlaw, Patterson: Simpler English, Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, no. 38, pt. iii, July, 1914. |
Warren, Arthur: Real Americanisms, Boston Herald, Nov. 20, 1892. |
Watts, Harvey M.: Prof. Lounsbury and His Rout of the Dons on Americanisms, Philadelphia Public Ledger, April 16, 1915. |
Wetherill, George N.: The American Language, Anglo-Continental, Jan., 1894. |
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide: Americanisms (in Johnson’s Cyclopedia, new ed.; New York, 1893). |
Whibley, Charles: The American Language, Bookman, Jan., 1908. |
White, Richard Grant: American Speech (in Every-Day English; Boston, 1880). |
——: 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. |
——: British-English and American-English (in Words and Their Uses; New York, 1870; rev. ed., New York, 1876). |
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Witherspoon, John: various notes on Americanisms in vol. iv of his Works; Phila., 1801. |