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- Title Splendiferous Speech: How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
- Author Rosemarie Ostler
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Chicago Review Press
- Date 1976
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780912777054 / 0912777052
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects English language - United States - Slang, English language - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018010533
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.440
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Chicago Review Press, 2018. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2018 Chicago Review Press softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. What does it mean to talk like an American? According to John Russell Bartlett's 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, it means indulging in outlandish slang-splendiferous, scrumptious, higgeldy piggedly-and free-and-easy word creation-demoralize, lengthy, gerrymander. American English is more than just vocabulary, though. It's a picturesque way of talking that includes expressions like go the whole hog, and the wild boasts of frontiersman Davy Crockett, who claimed to be "half horse, half alligator, and a touch of the airthquake." Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular-the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the sensation-filled pages of popular nineteenth-century newspapers. It's…
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