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"A literate exploration of why we useâ??or mangleâ??our native tongue."â??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 "Macaro… (mere)
Indeholder "List of Illustrations", "Acknowledgements", "Introduction", "1. The Mayflower and Before", "2. Becoming Americans", "3. A "Democratic Phrenzy": America in the Age of Revolution", "4. Making a Nation", "5. By the Dawn's Early Light: Forging a National Identity", "6. We're in the Money: The Age of Invention", "7. Names", "8. "Manifest Destiny": Taming the West", "9. The Melting Pot: Immigration in America", "10. When the Going was Good: Travel in America", "11. What's Cooking?: Eating in America", "12. Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America", "13. Manners and Other Matters", "14. The Hard Sell: Advertising in America", "15. The Movies", "16. The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play", "17. Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War", "18. Sex and Other Distractions", "19. The Road from Kitty Hawk", "20. Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond", "21. American English Today", "Notes on sources", "Notes", "Select bibliography", "Index".
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In the 1940s, a British traveller to Anholt, a small island fifty miles out in the Kattegat straight between Denmark and Sweden, noticed that the island children sang a piece of doggerel that was clearly nonsense to them. (introduction)
The image of the spiritual founding of America that generations of Americans have grown up with was created, oddly enough, by a poet of limited talents (to put it in the most magnanimous possible way) who lived two centuries after the event in a country three thousand miles away.
As Jefferson put it: "The new circumstances under which we are placed, call for new words, new phrases, and for the transfer of old words to new objects".
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"A literate exploration of why we useâ??or mangleâ??our native tongue."â??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 "Macaro
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