The American language; an inquiry into the development of English in the United States / by H. L. Mencken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

Contributor:

Dwiggins, A. W. (William Addison), 1880-1956.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

Americanisms.

Names--United States.

Names.

Names, Personal--United States.

Names, Personal.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 769 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xxix pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition corrected, enlarged, and rewritten.

Manufacture:

Norwood, Mass. : Composed, printed and bound by The Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Contents:

The two streams of English

The materials of the inquiry

The beginnings of American

The period of growth

The language today

American and English

The pronunciation of American

American spelling

The common speech

Proper names in America

American slang

The future of the language

Appendix: Non-English dialects in America.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Fourth Edition corrected, enlarged, and rewritten published April, 1936. Reprinted eight times. Tenth printing, April, 1946.

Preface to the fourth edition dated 1936.

"In this tenth printing of 'The American Language,' fourth edition, first published in 1936, the surviving errors of both the author and the printer have been rectified, and an effort has been made to produce a text that may stand indefinitely ..."--Note.

"This book was set on the linotype in Janson, a recutting made direct from the type cast from matrices (now in possession of the Stempel foundry, Frankfurt am Main) made by Anton Janson some time between 1660 and 1687."

"Designed by W. A. Dwiggins."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of H. L. Mencken.

OCLC:

19259681