made in america
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States| By: | Bill Bryson |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Print ISBN: | 9780380713813 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780062417411 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA Today Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”