The American Scene: a Reader. Selected and Edited, and with an Introduction and Commentary by Huntington Cairns
Author: Henry Louis MENCKEN
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 542
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Author: Henry Louis MENCKEN
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 542
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Published: 1982
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H.L. Mencken
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-04-04
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 0307813444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Robert Janken
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780807857809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to invest
Author: Philip Wagner
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1452910170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlends biographical and critical commentary to provide an overview of the controversial newspaperman and writer's life and work
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Published: 1965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles J. Humber
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2016-01-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1460283384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDAD’S BEST MEMORIES AND RECOLLECTIONS is Chazzz Humber’s epithaph casting a very long and sentimental shadow across North America and beyond. This 230-page volume is his granite monument, well-polished! It lavishly records 125 of his best memories over a life-span of nearly eighty years. The vignettes are serenaded with more than 400 illustrations. Those discovering this volume likely will find themselves wanting to record, in their own sunset years, their personal memories and recollections. And when they do, they are apt to recall what it was like to live in their fluctuating world dominated by a variety of personalities and cascading events. Mr. Humber vividly describes what it was like, in 1945, to travel in a 1930 Model A Ford from Toronto to Boston. With lively enthusiasm, he reports what it was like to live in post-World War II Boston, to cook a lobster for a former President of the United States or to sell a pair of elevator shoes to one of Hollywood’s shortest celebrities or to shine the shoes of a Derby-hatted father of a future President of the United States. It is not a remarkable achievement to reflect, to recall or to have memories that are treasured. But to tell them with literary aplomb, to recall the events that happened nearly seventy-five years ago with utmost clarity is definitely an admirable achievement and should be cherished not only by the kin who follow Mr. Humber but by those who might like to imitate what he has monumentally achieved in Dad’s Best Memories and Recollections.
Author: H.L. Mencken
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-02-08
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 0307808785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty chapters selected from three of the author's previous works: Happy days, Heathen days, and Newspaper days.