A: Arab: A Liverpool Street Kid Remembers, by Andie Clerk. 1969 (no further publication details available)

ALS: The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy, by Pat O'Mara. Bath: Cedric Chivers Ltd., 1934.

ANS: All Night Stand, a novel by Thom Keyes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

ATHIA: At the Heart of It All: An Autobiography, by Francis Clarke
London: Virago, 1993

B47: Black 47: Britain and the Famine Irish, by Frank Neal.  Baasingstokr: Macmillan, 1998

BLH: Tom O'Connor's Book of Liverpool Humour, by Tom O'Connor
London: Headline, 1988

BM: Butter for Marie: Memoirs of My Liverpool,  by Marie Hanson-Cordwell
Birkenhead: Countyvise, 1991

BUABS: Born Under a Bad Sign; being young and black in Toxteth, by Robert Smith Liverpool: The Bluecoat Press, 1996.

CLD:  Casual Labour at the Docks, by Henry Adolphus Mess.  London: Ratan Tata Foundation, 1916

CJB: Confessions of a Judas-Burner; A Social History of Judas Burning in the South End of Liverpool, by Carole Sexton

DBAPOI: Dingle Born--And Proud of It!: Recollections of Old Liverpool,   by Nora Hallowell
Liverpool: Raven Books, 1972

DBOC: Don't Blow Out the Candle; A Liverpool Childhood, 1921-1931, by Zena Marenbon
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973

DRS: A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, by Julian Franklyn
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960

DS: Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, by Eric Partridge, eighth edition. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

DSL: The Dialect of South Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, (second edition) by Samuel Bamford.  London: John Russell Smith, 1854.

DVSL:Distant Voices, Still Lives(1988), written and directed by Terence Davies, for the British Film Institute, Film Four, Channel 4 and ZDF about Catholic working-class upbringing during the 1950's.

DYKMAN: You Know me Auntie Nelly? Liverpool children's rhymes, compiled with notes on kids' games and Liverpool life by Frank Shaw; foreword by Peter Opie.
London: Wolfe, 1970

FSDD: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,  by Peter Turner
London: Chatto and Windus, 1986

GHTL: Going Home to Liverpool, by June Francis
London: Piatkus, 1995

GLD: A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, by John Nodal and George Milner.  Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1972

GS: The Gospels in Scouse, by the Reverend Dick Williams and Frank Shaw, illustrated by Derek Alder, with an introduction by David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool
London: White Lion Publishers, 1967.

GTA: Going to America, by Terry Coleman.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1972

GTH: A Game of Two Halves, Brian , by Fritz Spiegl
Glasgow: Harper Collins, 1996

GU: Growing Up: One Scouser's Social History, 1925-42.  Preston: Carnegie Press, 1989

GYW: Get Yer Wack: A Liverpool Anthology, by J.B. Jaques (no further publication details available)

IHBY: I Have Been Young and Now Am Old, by Andie Clark
Liverpool: James E. James, Ltd, 1973

ISA: Irish Slummy in America.  London: M. Hopkinson, 1935

JML: Jakestown: My LiverpooL, by Brian Jacques. Raven Books (no further publication details available)

L: Liverpolitans: A Miscellany of People and Places; Illustrations of Contemporary Liverpool, by Peter Howell Williams
Liverpool: Merseyside Civic Society, 1971

L8: Liverpool 8, by John Cornelius
London: S. Murray, 1982

LC: Liverpool Colonnade, by Richard Whittington-Egan. LIverpool: Philip, Son and Nephew, 1955.

LCS: Liverpool: City of the Sea.  Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997

LI30: Liverpool in the 1930's and the Blitz, by Ron Garnett
Preston: Palatine, 1995

LLMI: Low Life and Moral Improvement:  Liverpool Through the Journalism of Hugh Shimmin.  Leicester: Leicester                 University Press. 1991

LLS: The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, by Iona and Peter Opie
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1959

LMC: Liverpool, This is My City, by Richard Whittington-Egan
Liverpool: Gallery Press, 1972

LSII: Lern Yerself Scouse, or--the ABZ of Scouse, by Linacre Lane, B.Sc.(Bachelor of Scouse). The second volume of a Three-Part Cacology on How to Talk Proper on Merseyside, edited and annotated by Fritz Spiegl. Liverpool: Scouse Press, 1966.

LSIII: Lern Yerself Scouse: how to talk proper in Liverpool. Wersia Sensa Yuma? The third volume of the Scouse Press Thesauarus of Merseyside words and phrases, by Brian Minard. Liverpool: Scouse Press, 1972.

LSIV: Lern Yerself Scouse, the language of Laura Norder, cartoons by Ken Allen with an Historical Postscript. How to talk proper on Merseyside: Volume Four of the Great Liverpool Tetralogy of Scouseology, edited by Fritz Spiegl. Liverpool: Scouse Press, 1989

LSI: Lern Yerself Scouse, a teach-yourself phrase book by Frank Shaw, ed with notes and translations by Fritz Spiegl and a scouse pome by Stan Kelly. Liverpool: Scouse Press, 1966.

LTB: A Letter to Brezhnev(1985) a film shot in Liverpool starring Peter Firth, Alfred Molina, and Margi Clarke, directed by Chris Bernard for Yeardream/Film Four International/Palace Productions.

LWAS: The Liverpool Docklands: Life and Work in Athol Street, by Pat Ayers
Liverpool: Docklands History Project, 1988

MAH: Missions at Home, or a Clergyman's  Account of a Portion of the Town of Liverpool, by Abraham Hume.  London:(publisher unknown), 1850

MEM: Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working Class Credit, by Melanie Tebbutt.  Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1983

ML: My Liverpool, by Frank Shaw. Liverpool: Gallery Press, 1971.

MM: Mersey Memories, by Frank Unwin.  Neston: Gallery Press, 1986

MLS: Memoirs of a Liverpool Stripper, by Florence Jones
Roby: Pharaoh Press, 1996

MMWB: Mike Mac's White and Blacks Plus One Color, by Mike McCartney
London: Aurum Press, 1986

MOORE: Understanding British English; Bridging the Gap Between the English Language and Its American Counterpart, by Margaret E. Moore. New York: Citadel Press, 1989.

MV: Mersey Voices: Memories of Merseyside People, by Diana Pulson, et al.
Stroud: Tempus, 1999

NYM: Never A yes Man: The Life and politics of an Adopted Liverpudlian, by Eric Hefer
London, New York: verso, 1991

ODMS:Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, compiled by John Ayto. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

ODS: Oxford Dictionary of Slang, compiled by John Ayto. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

PL: Portrait of Liverpool by Howard Channon
London: Hale, 1970

PM: A Plea for Mersey, by Peter Moloney. (no publication details available)

RM: Reflections on the Mersey: Memoirs of the Twenties and Thirties, by Frank Unwin.  Weston: Gallery Press, 1984

SCHUR: British English A to Zed, by Norman W. Schur. New York: Harper Collins, 1987.

SGS: Sir Galahad of the Slums, by J. Lockhart Haigh.  London: (publisher unknown), 1907

Shaw I: "Dialect of a Seaport: Dicky Sam, Frisby Dyke, and Scouse," for The Journal of the Lancashire Dialect Society," 1958, 12-19.

SHAW II:"Dialect of a Seaport II," by Frank Shaw. for The Journal of the Lancashire Dialect Society," 1959, 32-41.

SHAW III:"Dialect of a Seaport: rhymes, games, pub names," for The Journal of the Lancashire Dialect Society," 1960, 30-42.

SI: Spike Island: Portrait of a Police Division, by James McClurre.  London: Macmillan, 1980

SL: Internet Scouse Listserve: scousers@merseyworld.com

SR: Scotland Road; the Old Neighborhood, by Terry Cooke. Merseyside: Countyvise, Ltd., 1987.

ST: "Scouse Talks," by Frank Shaw; the text, with translations of taped recordings made in the Central Library of Liverpool in 1957.

TGD: Through a Glass Darkly: Notes on the Life of a Parish  Priest, by Leslie John Forster.  Hollinfare: St.Helen's Church, 1998

TIM: Thursday Is Missing, by Richard Passmore.  London: T. Harmsworth, 1984.

TMD: Teardrops on My Drum, by Jack Robinson
London: GMP, 1986

TTR: Time to Remember: Growing Up in Liverpool from 1912 Onwards, by Elsie Pettigrew
Liverpool: Toulouse, 1989

TWH:  Talk of the Wash House, by Peter Ellison and Paulette Howe. LIverpool: Picton Press, 1997.

UF: Unquenchable Fire, by Andie Clark
Liverpool: James E. James, Ltd., 1975

ZCAR: Z-Car Squad, by William Prendergast
London: Long, 1968