Speaking American: A History of English in the United States by Richard W. Bailey

Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

Richard W. Bailey

232 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wi...

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