TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryson,Bill
TI  - Made in America: an informal history of the English language in the United States 
SN  - 0380713810
AV  - PE2809 .B79 1995
U1  - 420/.973 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - N.Y.
PB  - Perennial
KW  - English language
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Americanisms
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index; The Mayflower and before -- Becoming Americans -- A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution -- Making a nation -- By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity -- We're in the money: the age of invention -- Names -- "Manifest destiny": taming the West -- The melting pot: immigration in America -- When the going was good: travel in America -- What's cooking? Eating in America -- Democratizing luxury: shopping in America -- Manners and other matters -- The hard sell: advertising in America -- The movies -- The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play -- Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war -- Sex and other distractions -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet -- Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond -- American English today
ER  -