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The American Language

Name: The American Language
Author: H.L. Mencken

The American Language; An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States.

“A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.”

H.L. Mencken book The American Language

Source: The American Language (1919), Ch. 5

“Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.”

H.L. Mencken book The American Language

The American Language (1919)

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