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A history of the American English language consists of entertaining anecdotes that reveal the bizarre and often humorous origins of such familiar words as "Hollywood" and "macaroni." Reprint.
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
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