The American Language
Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 revised and enlarged second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on:. the general character of American English. loan-words and non-English influences. expletives and forbidden words. American slang. the future of the language. and much, much more.Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly e…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-623-3
- EAN: 9781605206233
- Produktnummer: 39334689
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.8 cm 763 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 763
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