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Made in America

An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Bill Bryson
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Pages
496
Year
2015
Language
English
Publisher
HarperCollins

About

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its 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 called his be feathered cap "Macaroni."

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