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epub | 8.74 MB | English | Isbn:9780062417411 | Author: Bill Bryson | Year: 1994
About ebook: made in america: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Quote:"A literate exploration of why we use-or mangle-our native tongue."-USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America's magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood.and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
Category:Reference, Philosophy, English Language Reference, Linguistics & Semiotics, Language Families, English Language Reference - General & Miscellaneous, Germanic Languages - English Language