Parts of speech
Subtitle: essays on English
By: by Brander Matthews.
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: title: The stock that speaks the language.-The future of the language.-The English language in the United States.-The language in Great Britain.-Americanisms once more.-New Words and old.-The naturalization of foreign words.-The function of slang.-Questions of usage.-An inquiry as to rime.-On the poetry of place-names.-As to "American spelling."-The simplification of English spelling.-Americanism, an attempt at a definition.