The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the…

by H. L. Mencken

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The American Language (1)

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1936-04

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The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction (The Board's List, 9)

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The first American colonists had perforce to invent Americanisms, if only to describe the unfamiliar landscape and weather, flora and fauna confronting them.

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