TY  - BOOK
AU  - McQuain,Jeff
TI  - Never enough words: how Americans invented expressions as ingenious, ornery, and colorful as themselves 
SN  - 0679458042
AV  - PE2839 .M38 1999
U1  - 427/.973 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - English language
KW  - United States
KW  - Terms and phrases
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Figures of speech
KW  - Americanisms
KW  - Terminology
KW  - French language
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-267) and index; Personally speaking: the American spirit --; Intellectually speaking: the American mind --; Emotionally speaking: the American heart
N2  - As Jeffrey McQuain illustrates in this history of the American language, there are Never Enough Words. Chronicling American English from its first deviations from the King's English to today's cyberlanguage, he delves into our linguistic history to show how a new American language was invented and re-invented over the centuries from colonial times to today. Along the way, he demonstrates for the first time how specific characteristic American traits are directly connected to the terms we have coined
ER  -