The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H.L. Mencken, H.L. Mencken

The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

H.L. Mencken, H.L. Mencken

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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 w...

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