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The American Language Study Guide

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by H. L. Mencken
About 122 pages (36,636 words)
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Chapter 4.1 Summary

The author devotes this chapter to taxonomy, showing two lists - terms in everyday use in English and those in American.

Chapter 4.1 Analysis

The lists of American and English are interesting for language students and others. Each list shows the similarities due to coinage and borrowing, and shows how in each case the American term stays close to or departs from the English form of the word/phrase. By studying such characteristics in comparison.....

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