American English

North America 

See separate pages for African American English, Canadian English

Varieties of English. 2 The Americas and the Caribbean (2008)


USA    

Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Longman Dictionary of American English  (4th ed, 2009)

Merriam Webster Dictionary

Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 6. English in North America (2001)

Bill Bryson, Made in America. An Informal History of American English: (2016)

Michael Adams, The Making of American English Dictionaries (book chapter, 2020)

Dictionary of American Regional English

The Atlas of North American English (2006)

Corpus of Contemporary American English

Corpus of Historical American English

Sylvie Dubois and Barbara M. Horvath, Cajun Vernacular English: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Wikipedia: California English

Kent Sakoda and Jeff Siegel, Hawai'i Creole: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Wikipedia: Hawaiian Pidgin

Wikipedia: New York City English

Wikipedia: Pacific Northwest English

Wikipedia: Chinook Jargon  (a creole in the Pacific Northwest)


British - American interactions

Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: the love-hate relationship between American and British English (book, 2018)

Lynne Murphy, Separated by a Common Language (blog, 2006- )

Ben Yagoda, Not One-Off Britishisms (blog, 2011- )

Is American accent the original British accent? (web page, 2015)


Appalachian English

Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English

Appalachian English (website)

Annotated Bibliography on Southern Appalachian English

Michael Montgomery, Exploring the roots of Appalachian English (English World-Wide 10(2) 1989)

Michael Montgomery, The Historical Background and Nature of the Englishes of Appalachia (2011)


Spanglish

Ilan Stavans, Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language (2004)

Ilan Stavans, "A Lay Lexicographer": On Codifying the Dictionary of Spanglish (Dictionaries 41(2) 2020)

Bill Cruz et al, The Official Spanglish Dictionary (1998)

Wikipedia: Spanglish

Otto Santa Ana and Robert Bayley, Chicano English: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Wikipedia: Chicano English 

Wikipedia: New York Latino English

The New York Latino English Project Page (archived web page)


South America 

Julian Jefferies, Anglo-Argentine English (book chapter, 2010)

Danae M. Perez-Inofuentes, Anglo-Paraguayan English (book chapter, 2015)


South Atlantic Islands

Wikipedia: Falkland Islands English

Falkland Islands English (2010)

John Ingram and Peter Mühlhäusler, Norfolk Island - Pitcairn English: phonetics and phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Norfuk Language (2010) (Norfolk Island)

The English of 'Saints' (2010) (St.Helena)

Tristan da Cunha English (2010)