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This Volume 3 of 8 of American English 1781 to 1921 series, looking at words and their uses past and present and focusing on the English Language. It looks at selected papers on American English. Words and their uses is based on a series of articles published in The Galaxy from 1867 to 1869. These articles were then published in a book that went through thirty-here editions by 1899, as listed... Read more
Introduction, Bibliography, Afterthoughts and Forewords to the Present Edition, To James Russell Lowell, Preface, Chapter I Introduction, II Newspaper English, Big Words for Small Thoughts, III British English and 'American' English IV Style V Misused Words VI Some Briticisms VII Words hat are not Words VIII Formation of Pronouns-Some-Adjectives in En.-Either and Neither- Shall and Will IX Grammar, English and Latin X The Grammarless Tongue XI Is Being Done XII A Desultory Denunciation of English Dictionaries XIII 'Jus Et Norma Loquendi, Conclusion, Appendix
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Richard Grant White
