The list excludes a number of authors or works cited only once or twice; for these, specific bibliographical information is provided in the relevant headnote.
| ADD | American Dialect Dictionary,ed Harold Wentworth (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1944). |
| BARNES | A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect,comp William Barnes (Dorchester: M.& E. Case, 1886) |
| BERREY | The American Thesaurus of Slang,comp Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Vanden Bark (NewYork: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1943) |
| BOSWORTH-TOLLER | An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary,eds Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (London:Oxford University Press, 1898; rpt 1972). |
| BOWEN | Sea Slang,ed Frank C. Bowen (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [1929] |
| BRYANT | Ralph Clement Bryant,Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in theUnited States,2nd ed (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1923) |
| Cent | The Century Dictionary,editor-in-chief, William Dwight Whitney, 12 vols. (New York: The Century Co.,1891; rpt 1906) |
| DA | A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles,ed Mitford M. Mathews (Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1951) |
| DAE | A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles,eds William A. Craigie and James R. Hulbert,4 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938-1944) |
| DAS | Dictionary of American Slang,2nd supplemented ed, eds Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner (NewYork: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,1975) |
| DC | A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles,editor-in-chief, Walter S. Avis (Toronto: W.J. GageLimited, 1967) |
| DE LA MORANDIÈRE | Ch. De la Morandière,Histoire de la pêche française de la morue dans l'Amériqueseptentrionale (de la révolution à nos jours),Tome iii, 'Dictionnaire terreveuvier'(Paris: G.-P Maisonneuve et Larose, 1966) |
| Dict Aust Colloq | A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms,ed G.A. Wilkes (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,1978) |
| DINNEEN | Foclóir Gaedhilge agus béarla; An Irish-English Dictionary, ed Patrick S Dinneen (Dublin:Educational Company of Ireland, 1927; rpt 1965) |
| DJE | Dictionary of Jamaican English, eds F. G. Cassidy and R. B. Le Page (Cambridge: The University Press,1967; 2nd ed, 1979) |
| EDD | The English Dialect Dictionary, ed Joseph Wright, 6 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1898-1905; rpt 1961) |
| EDD Sup | 'Supplement' in vol. vi ofThe English Dialect Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1905) |
| EDG | The English Dialect Grammar, Joseph Wright (Oxford University Press, 1905; rpt 1961) |
| ELMER | Willy Elmer,Terminology of Fishing; A Survey of English andWelsh Inshore-FishingThings andWords(Bern: Francke Verlag, 1973) |
| Fisheries of U S | The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, comp George Brown Goode, Sec.V, vol. i (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887) |
| Glossaire | Glossaire du parler français au Canada (Québec: L'Action Sociale, 1930) |
| Gray's Botany | Merritt Lyndon Fernald,Gray's Manual of Botany, 8th ed (New York: Van NostrandReinhold Company,1950;1970) |
| GROSE | Francis Grose,A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue(London: S. Hooper, 1785; rpt 1968) |
| HARRAP | Harrap's New Standard French and English Dictionary, 2 parts, 3 vols. (New York: CharlesScribner's Sons, 1972) |
| JOYCE | P.W. Joyce,English as We Speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1910) |
| Labrador Inuit | Rose Jeddore, ed Labrador Inuit: Uqausingit(Nain: The Labrador Inuit Committee on Literacy,1976) |
| LEIM & SCOTT | A. H. Leim and W.B. Scott,Fishes of the Atlantic Coast of Canada (Ottwa: FisheriesResearch Board of Canada, Bulletin No. 155, 1966) |
| LEMOINE | Geo. Lemoine,Dictionnaire français montagnais avec un vocabulaire montagnais-anglais(Boston: W.B. Cabot and P. Cabot, 1901) |
| LEWIS & SHORT | A Latin Dictionary,eds Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (Oxford: At the ClarendonPress,1879; rpt 1955) |
| Ling Atlas Scot | The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, Scots Section, 2 vols., eds J.Y. Mather and H.H. Speitel(London: Croom Heim, 1975; 1977) |
| LUBBOCK | Basil Lubbock,The Arctic Whalers(Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1937; rpt 1968) |
| MASSIGNON | Geneviève Massignon,Les parlers français d'Acadie; enquête linguistique, 2 vols. (Paris: C.Klincksieck [1962]) |
| MED | Middle English Dictionary, eds Hans Kurath, Sherman M.Kuhn, John Reidy and others, A-O (AnnArbor:University of Michigan Press, 1956-1980) |
| NID | Webster's Third New International Dictionary, editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove (Springfield: G. & C.Merriam Company, 1961) |
| OED | The Oxford English Dictionary, ed James A.H. Murray and others,12 vols. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press,1884-1928; corrected reissue, 1933) |
| O Sup1 | The Oxford English Dictionary; Supplement and Bibliography(Oxford: At the Clarendon Press,1933) |
| O Sup2 | A Supplement to theOxford EnglishDictionary,ed R.W.Burchfield, 2 vols., A-N(Oxford: At the ClarendonPress, 1972; 1976) |
| PARTRIDGE | A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,4th ed, revised, ed Eric Partridge(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1951; rpt 1956) |
| PEACOCK | English-Eskimo Dictionary,ed F.W. Peacock (St John's: Memorial University, [1974]) |
| PHILLIPPS | K.C. Phillipps,Westcountry Words & Ways(Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1976) |
| PIERCE | Wesley George Pierce,Goin' Fishin' The Story of the Deep-Sea Fishermen of New England(Salem: Marine Research Society, 1934) |
| SED | Survey of English Dialects; The Basic Material,4 vols. in 12 parts, ed Harold Orton and others(Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son Limited, 1962-71) |
| Shetland Truck System | Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the TruckSystem (Shetland)(Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1872; rpt 1978) |
| SMYTH | The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms,ed W.H. Smyth (London:Blackie and Son, 1867) |
| SND | The Scottish National Dictionary, eds William Grant and David Murison, 10 vols. (Edinburgh:The Scottish National Dictionary Association Ltd, [1931]-1976) |
| Trésor de la langue française | Trésor de la langue française; Dictionnaire de la langue du XIX et du XXsiècle (1789-1960),[directed by] Paul Imbs (Paris: Editions du centre national de larecherche scientifique, 1971-) |
| WILCOCKS | J.C. Wilcocks,The Sea-fisherman, 2nd ed (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868) |
