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Title: The American Language Supplement 1 :The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 1945
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394400763
ISBN 13: 9780394400761
Binding: hardcover
Edition: Tenth, 1966 edition.
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 48 ounces

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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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