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Language: English
Published by Random House, 2002
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Homegrown English: How Americans Invented Themselves and Their Language
- Author
- McQuain, Jeffrey
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- Used Book
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375719814
- ISBN 13
- 9780375719813
- Edition
- First Thus.
Offers a whimsical study of the ways in which the unique attributes of the American character have shaped the American language, tracing the idiosyncratic evolution of American language through the distinctive words that make it up. Originally published as Never Enough Words. Reprint. 10,000 first printing
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About the Author
Jeffrey McQuain has been a researcher and guest columnist for William Safire's "On Language" column, and is a renowned Shakespeare scholar. He is currently the editor of Copy Editor, and is the author of Coined by Shakespeare, the Word Workout series, and Power Language: Getting the Most Out of Your Words.
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