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There's a word for it : the explosion of the American language since 1900 / Sol Steinmetz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinmetz, Sol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--United States--Lexicology.
- English language.
- English language--United States--New words.
- English language--Social aspects--United States.
- English language--Social aspects.
- Words, New.
- Lexicology.
- United States.
- Language and culture--United States.
- Language and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harmony Books, [2010]
- Contents:
- The dawn of the twentieth century: 1900-1909
- The ballroom decade and the Great War: 1910-1919
- The roaring twenties: 1920-1929
- The Great Depression: 1930-1939
- World War II and postwar: 1940-1949
- Midcentury- the affluent fifties: 1950-1959
- The turbulent sixties: 1960-1969
- The me decade: 1970-1979
- The yuppie generation: 1980-1989
- The World Wide Web: 1990-1999
- The third millennium: 2000-2009
- Conclusion: the new words lists.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780375426179
- 0375426175
- OCLC:
- 290470352
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