Made in America
Subtitle: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Edition: 1st U.S. ed edition
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780688103125
Subjects: Language; English Language History; History - General History; United States; General; English language; Americanisms; History
First sentence: The image of the spiritual founding of America that generations of Americans have grown up with was created, oddly enough, by a poet of limited talents (to put it in the most magnanimous possible way) who lived two centuries after the event in a country three thousand miles away.