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- Author: H L Mencken
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- Year: 2010
- Pages: 512
- ISBN-10: 1616402598
- ISBN-13: 9781616402594
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 3.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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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- Author: H L Mencken
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- Year: 2010
- Pages: 512
- ISBN-10: 1616402598
- ISBN-13: 9781616402594
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 3.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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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