Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions As Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful As Themselves: How Americans Invented Expressions as ... and Colorful as Themselves / Jeffrey Mcquain. - Hardcover

McQuain, Jeff

 
9780679458043: Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions As Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful As Themselves: How Americans Invented Expressions as ... and Colorful as Themselves / Jeffrey Mcquain.
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679458042 ISBN 13: 9780679458043
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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. 10,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeffery McQuain has been guest columnist for William Safire and has a national reputation as a word history expert and Shakespeare scholar.

Aus dem Klappentext

ain explores the interconnections between the American character and history and the evolution of the American language. From the humorous -- the lawyer bird, named for its long bill -- to the sonorous -- whippoorwills and katydids, named for the sounds they make -- he demonstrates how our distinctive American traits have shaped and been echoed in our language, and, in so doing, demonstrates the fact that language is a living thing.

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679458042
ISBN 13 
9780679458043
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
278
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