Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Bill Bryson

480 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history travel funny informative reflective slow-paced

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"A literate exploration of why we use--or mangle--our native tongue."--USA Today Bill Bryson celebrates America's magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be kn...

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