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A vocabulary, or, Collection of words and phrases, which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America : to which is prefixed an essay on the present state of the English language in the United States / originally published in the Memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences and now republished with corrections and additions by John Pickering.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pickering, John, 1777-1846.
Contributor:
Cumming and Hilliard, publisher.
Hilliard and Metcalf, printer.
Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Americanisms.
English language--United States.
English language.
United States.
Physical Description:
vii pages, 9 unnumbered pages-206 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Other Title:
Vocabulary
Collection of words and phrases, which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America
Place of Publication:
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard ... ; Cambridge : Hilliard and Metcalf, 1816.
Notes:
"Errata" on penultimate p., final p. blank.
Signatures: [1]⁴ 2-26⁴.
Cited in:
Shaw & Shoemaker 38631
Sabin 62638
OCLC:
30622784

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