The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
- Author
- H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- English language · Americanisms · Names · Names, Personal
- Shelves
- Category: American Literature · Category: Language & Communication
The opening, in English.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Original spelling and grammar has mostly been retained. Many inconsistencies in the use of hyphens and character accents have been retained; some of these were probably intentional. Footnotes were moved to the ends of chapters. The original pagination of this 1919 edition is shown in square brackets, e.g. [Pg009]. There are an awful lot of italics in this book. In this simple text version, /italics are marked with the solidus/. Text that was originally small caps is shown in uppercase.
Further details are provided in the TRANSCRIBER ENDNOTE.
