By Robert Hendrickson
ISBN-10: 1620875977
ISBN-13: 9781620875971
The Queen’s English has no position around the pond, the place a protracted historical past of defiance, creativity, and originality has made its approach into the typical vocabulary of american citizens coast-to-coast. God Bless America is an informative and interesting consultant to the which means and historical past underneath our uniquely American phrases and words. Robert Hendrickson makes it transparent that even if you’re ordering “fried chicken” or heading out to determine a “movie,” you're celebrating contributions to the English language made by means of americans, either well-known and forgotten. With broad examine and a keenness for language, Hendrickson furthers our figuring out of the universal and introduces us to the extra imprecise artifacts of yankee speech.
God Bless America provides the definitions and historical past for lots of uniquely American words and phrases, such as:
• Bald eagle
• Boston baked beans
• Five-and-ten
• provide ’em hell
• Lazy Susan
• Sho’ nuff
• Yankee Doodle
• And more!
A dictionary packed filled with old debts, etymological peculiarities, and innovative spirit, God Bless America represents not just the yank language but in addition the yank humans. This publication presents an indisputable source for tourists, patriots, and Anglophiles from all walks of existence.
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