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

McQuain, Jeff

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

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

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

De la solapa interior

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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Editorial
Random House USA Inc
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679458042
ISBN 13 
9780679458043
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
278
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