Never enough words : how Americans invented expressions as ingenious, ornery, and colorful as themselves / Jeffrey McQuain.

By: McQuain, Jeff, 1955-
Publisher: New York : Random House, 1999Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0679458042; 9780679458043Subject(s): English language -- United States -- Terms and phrases | English language -- United States -- Etymology | Figures of speech | Americanisms | English language -- United States -- Terminology | French language -- Figures of speechGenre/Form: Dictionaries.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Never enough words.DDC classification: 427/.973 LOC classification: PE2839 | .M38 1999
Contents:
Personally speaking: the American spirit -- Intellectually speaking: the American mind -- Emotionally speaking: the American heart.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-267) and index.

Personally speaking: the American spirit -- Intellectually speaking: the American mind -- Emotionally speaking: the American heart.

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.

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