Fülszöveg
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1 1 OT SINCE 1919, when H. L. Mencken
first published The American Language, has
there been as competent and interesting a
survey of American English as this book by
Thomas Pyles.
Here is a fresh, popular account of the main
currents of American English, expertly well-
balanced in its perspective and thoroughly ex-
citing in its picture of the unfolding language
on the new continent.
This book tells, in a remarkably readable
way, how the English language spoken today
in America came to its present form—how it
began with the British heritage of the early
settlers, how it borrowed from the Indian lan-
guages to describe the wonders of the New
World, how it absorbed and adapted elements
of many Old World languages spoken by other
settlers and later immigrants, how it developed
new characteristics in the emerging culture
here, how it has been pressed and sometimes
molded by purists, how it has refused to be
inhibited and, in consequence, grown into the...
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Fülszöveg
N
1 1 OT SINCE 1919, when H. L. Mencken
first published The American Language, has
there been as competent and interesting a
survey of American English as this book by
Thomas Pyles.
Here is a fresh, popular account of the main
currents of American English, expertly well-
balanced in its perspective and thoroughly ex-
citing in its picture of the unfolding language
on the new continent.
This book tells, in a remarkably readable
way, how the English language spoken today
in America came to its present form—how it
began with the British heritage of the early
settlers, how it borrowed from the Indian lan-
guages to describe the wonders of the New
World, how it absorbed and adapted elements
of many Old World languages spoken by other
settlers and later immigrants, how it developed
new characteristics in the emerging culture
here, how it has been pressed and sometimes
molded by purists, how it has refused to be
inhibited and, in consequence, grown into the
colorful, spirited language it now is.
American English is a book of permanent
value for everyone who wants to know more
about the language he hears, reads, and uses
every day of his life. It is only through such
knowledge that true competence in the use of
English arises.
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