Many of the entries in Words of Wolfe Island contain a citation in the form of an acronym. The full references for these acronyms are below.
AH
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Forth Edition. 2006. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York.
COD
Barber, Katherine (editor). 2004. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition. Oxford University Press Canada, Toronto.
DARE-1
Frederic G. Cassidy (chief editor). 1985. Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I, Introduction and A-C. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
DARE-2
Frederic G. Cassidy, Chief Editor and Joan Houston Hall (associate editor). 1991 Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II, D-H. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London England.
DARE-5
Joan Houston Hall (chief editor). 2021. Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V, SL-Z. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London England.
DCHP
Dollinger, Stefan (chief editor) and Margery Fee (associate editor). 2017. DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Second Edition. With the assistance of Baillie Ford, Alexandra Gaylie and Gabrielle Lim. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, www.dchp.ca/dchp2.
MW
Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/. Accessed 20 Apr. 2022.
(Note that all entries were verified on this date)
OED
OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2022. Web. 30 June 2022.
(Note that all entries were verified on this date)
RH
The Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition. 1993. Random House Inc., New York.
TT
Dheilly, Joanne. 1985. Timber Talk as heard in the woods of British Columbia. Waterwheel Press, West Vancouver.