Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions As Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful As Themselves: How Americans Invented Expressions as ... and Colorful as Themselves / Jeffrey Mcquain. - Rilegato

McQuain, Jeff

 
9780679458043: Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions As Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful As Themselves: How Americans Invented Expressions as ... and Colorful as Themselves / Jeffrey Mcquain.
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ISBN 10: 0679458042 ISBN 13: 9780679458043
Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1999

Sinossi

Offers a whimsical study of the ways in which the unique attributes of the American character have shaped the American language, tracing the idiosyncratic evolution of American language through the distinctive words that make it up. 10,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jeffery McQuain has been guest columnist for William Safire and has a national reputation as a word history expert and Shakespeare scholar.

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ain explores the interconnections between the American character and history and the evolution of the American language. From the humorous -- the lawyer bird, named for its long bill -- to the sonorous -- whippoorwills and katydids, named for the sounds they make -- he demonstrates how our distinctive American traits have shaped and been echoed in our language, and, in so doing, demonstrates the fact that language is a living thing.

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Editore
Random House Inc
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0679458042
ISBN 13 
9780679458043
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
278
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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