Early American Proverbs
Whiting, B. J. (1977). Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Science Fiction Quotations
Westfahl, G. (2005). Science fiction quotations: from the inner mind to the outer limits. New Haven, Yale University Press.
A book of quotes from SF sources.
Black Talk
Smitherman, G. (2000). Black talk: words and phrases from the hood to the amen corner. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
A look at African-American English.
Yale Book of Quotations
Shapiro, F. R. (2006). The Yale book of quotations. New Haven, Yale University Press.
A superb and meticulously researched collection of quotes.
Classic American Graffiti
Read, A. W. (1977). Classic American graffiti: lexical evidence from folk epigraphy in western North America: a glossarial study of the low element in the English vocabulary. Waukesha, Wis., Maledicta.
A reprint of Read’s classic 1935 monograph on graffiti.
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