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Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States

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A literate exploration of why we useor mangleour native tongue.USA Today

Bill Bryson celebrates Americas 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 Hollywoodand exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap Macaroni.

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William Morrow Paperbacks
0380713810 / 9780380713813
Paperback
427.973
23/10/2001
English
xii, 417 p.
21 cm
general /undergraduate Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg ; New York: William Morrow, 1994.