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100 1 $aBryson, Bill.
245 10 $aMade in America :$ban informal history of the English language in the United States /$cBill Bryson.
250 $a1st Avon Books trade printing.
260 $aNew York :$bAvon Books,$cc1996.
300 $axiv, 417 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index.
505 0 $aThe Mayflower and before -- Becoming Americans -- A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution -- Making a nation -- By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity -- We're in the money: the age of invention -- Names -- "Manifest destiny": taming the West -- The melting pot: immigration in America -- When the going was good: travel in America -- What's cooking? Eating in America -- Democratizing luxury: shopping in America -- Manners and other matters -- The hard sell: advertising in America -- The movies -- The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play -- Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war -- Sex and other distractions -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet -- Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond -- American English today.
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650 0 $aAmericanisms$xHistory.
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