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

Bryson, Bill

 
9780380713813: Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0380713810 ISBN 13: 9780380713813
Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1996

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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 known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”

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Bill Bryson's bestselling books include One Summer, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue. He lives in England with his wife.

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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap "Macaroni."

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Verlag
William Morrow Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0380713810
ISBN 13 
9780380713813
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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