Homegrown English: How Americans Invented Themselves and Their Language
A study of the ways in which the unique attributes of the American character have shaped the American language.
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Offers a whimsical study of the ways in which the unique attributes of the American character have shaped the American language, tracing the idiosyncratic evolution of American language through the distinctive words that make it up. Originally published as Never Enough Words. Reprint. 10,000 first printing
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