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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Paperback - 1996
by Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson, author of the national bestseller The Mother Tongue, takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the U.S. from the perspective of language and popular culture..
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Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.Buy this book at once and have a nice day!
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its 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 called his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
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- Title Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
- Author Bill Bryson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1996-03-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780380713813 / 0380713810
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
- Library of Congress subjects English language - United States - History, Americanisms - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 420.973
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- Publishers Weekly, 01/15/1996, Page 0
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