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Hardcover: 9780394400754, 4th edition (Random House Inc, June 1, 1948), cover price $60.00
Paperback: 9781605206233, Cosimo Inc, August 31, 2009, cover price $29.95
American Language
A modified, one-volume edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English
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Product Description: 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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