America in so many words : words that have shaped America / David K. Barnhart and Allan A. Metcalf.
America in so many words : words that have shaped America / David K. Barnhart and Allan A. Metcalf.
America in so many words : words that have shaped America / David K. Barnhart and Allan A. Metcalf.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1997.
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T0384313
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English
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Physical content
xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Representative words -- The English in America: 1497-1750 -- These United States: 1751-1800 -- Mammoth Enterprise: 1801-1865 -- End of the Frontier: 1866-1900 -- Modern Times: 1901-1944 -- Nearing the Millennium: 1945-1998.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1997.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
"America is built of words," say the authors of this fascinating journey through America's linguistic past, and this book tells the story of the words that have made us what we are today. Year by year, from the early 1600s until the late 1990s, it discusses words that Americans have added to the English language and words that they have embraced in...
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America in so many words : words that have shaped America / David K. Barnhart and Allan A. Metcalf.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. x-xii) and indexes.
Transferred from N422.0973/1.
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c1997.
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T0384313
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74VMbbD5lvwd
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ISBN
0395860202
9780395860205
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422.0973
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991000893789702626
