New. Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions as Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful as Themsel ves by Jeffrey McQuain. Random House Reference, 1999. 278pp. Language: English.

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Title: Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions as Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful as Themsel ves
Publisher: Random House Reference
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679458042
ISBN 13: 9780679458043
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Jeffery McQuain explores the interconnections between the American character and history and the evolution of the American language. From the humorous -- the lawyer bird, named for its long bill -- to the sonorous -- whippoorwills and katydids, named for the sounds they make -- he demonstrates how our distinctive American traits have shaped and been echoed in our language, and, in so doing, demonstrates the fact that language is a living thing.

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Jeffery McQuain has been guest columnist for William Safire and has a national reputation as a word history expert and Shakespeare scholar.

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