Speaking Freely : A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley

Flexner, Stuart Berg ; Soukhanov, Anne H.

ISBN 10: 019510692X / ISBN 13: 9780195106923

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1997

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[vii]472 pages. Illustrated.

Seller Inventory # ENGL009

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speaking Freely : A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019510692X
• ISBN 13: 9780195106923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

An examination of American English

About the Author

About the Authors:
Anne H. Soukhanov is the "Word Watch" columnist for the Atlantic Monthly and executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. Stuart Berg Flexner was one of America's most distinguished lexicographers, a major editor of The Random House Dictionary--The Unabridged Edition and author of The Dictionary of American Slang, among many other books.