Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
ALTERNATE COVER EDITION for ISBN 9780380713813 Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her 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...
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ALTERNATE COVER EDITION for ISBN 9780380713813
Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her 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."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
0380713810
Publish date: 2001-10-23
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Linguistics has moved along a bit since this was written, so it isn't current after 22 years, but it is still fun to read. Personal copy
I listened to this on audio. Up front, let me state that I thought this book was going to be entirely about how the English language evolved in the United States since the revolution. It is, but only marginally. It's much more a short history of the USA's short history, with the evolution of wor...
aqui Sempre quis saber como é que o inglês americano se formou? Sempre quis saber quais foram as influências deste dialecto de inglês? Para conhecermos a evolução do inglês americano, também precisamos de conhecer a história deste país - os Estados Unidos da América, nem sempre foram como hoje os co...
Bought at Lisbon's book fair 2010.Made in America is a non-fiction book about, well, America. First off, I bought this book mainly because of 3 reasons:a) I loved Bill Bryson’s book on Shakespeare;b) I originally thought it was more about American history and culture rather than language development...
Funny, interesting and informative. One fact that sticks with me is that every town in America had its own time until the railroad decided clock time needed to be standardized. What that has to do with American English I don't remember, but that's how Bryson's writing is--there are lots of fascinat...
9 years ago
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