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100 1 _aMencken, H. L.
_q(Henry Louis),
_d1880-1956
245 1 4 _aThe American Language :
_bA Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2013
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Language
500 _aRelease date is 2013-08-01
508 _aProduced by Bruce Albrecht, RichardW and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEnglish language
653 _aAmericanisms
653 _aNames -- United States
653 _aNames, Personal -- United States
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43376
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