TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mencken,H.L.
TI  - The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
AV  - PE 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English language
KW  - Americanisms
KW  - Names -- United States
KW  - Names, Personal -- United States
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Language; Release date is 2013-08-01; Produced by Bruce Albrecht, RichardW and the Online
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N2  - "The American Language" by H. L. Mencken is a book published in 1919 that examines English as spoken in the United States. Inspired by street argot and Mark Twain, Mencken defended American speech against British critics who dismissed it as a corruption of proper English. He argued that American English was more colorful and creative than its counterpart across the Atlantic. The work explores American variations, names, and slang, challenging prescriptive grammar rules and celebrating how language evolves independently of textbooks. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43376
ER  -