American Language Supplement 1

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Reference
Cover of the book American Language Supplement 1 by H.L. Mencken, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: H.L. Mencken ISBN: 9780307808783
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: February 8, 2012
Imprint: Knopf Language: English
Author: H.L. Mencken
ISBN: 9780307808783
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: February 8, 2012
Imprint: Knopf
Language: English

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 enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.

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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 enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.

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