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An American Glossary

其他書名	Being an Attempt to Illustrate Certain Americanisms Upon Historical Principles
出版	Francis & Company, 1912
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o844AQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In this compilation are included: forms of speech now obsolete or provincial in England which survive in the U.S.; words and phrases of distinctly American origin; nouns which indicate quadrupeds, birds, trees, articles of food, etc. that are distinctly American; names of persons, classes of persons, and of places; words which have assumed new meanings; words and phrases with earlier American examples than in English writers.