Parts of speech
Subtitle: essays on English
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1901
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: English language.; Spelling reform.; Americanisms.
Table of contents: value: The stock that speaks the language.; value: The future of the language.; value: The English language in the United States.; value: The language in Great Britain.; value: Americanism once more.; value: New words and old.; value: The naturalization of foreign words.; value: The function of slang.; value: Questions of usage.; value: An inquiry as to rime.; value: On the poetry of placenames.; value: As to "American spelling."; value: The simplification of English spelling.; value: Americanism, an attempt at a definition.