[PDF.75td] Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

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 | #1077906 in Books |  2012-01-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.00 x9.40l,.95 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Three Stars|By Ted Pastrick|Good information but a lot more academic than I'd expected. Dry but accurate.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Makes me feel smarter|By Mary Corey|I love this|10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Positive "spin" on American English| ||"Places fresh daggers in the heart of the idea that language can somehow be perfected and standardized and celebrates the ability of English to change, adapt, adopt, steal and transform. - Kirkus s||"Beautifully researched and engagingly written, Speaking Am

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?

A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. The book is organized in hal...

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