Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases, Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States

John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases, Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (1848) was a pioneering work in linguistics. This dictionary aimed to catalog words and phrases specific to the United States. It went through four editions and was translated into Dutch and German.1

A later work, A Dictionary of Americanisms, edited by Mitford M. Mathews and published in 1951, also focused on words and expressions originating in the United States or first borrowed into English there. Unlike some other dictionaries, it exclusively included words of American origin.2