Made in America
Author: Bill Bryson
Translator: Kyong-ok Jeong
Publisher: Salim
678 pages | 215*152mm
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About This Book
Readers from Toad Suck, Arkansas, to Idiotsville, Oregon--and everywhere
in between--will love Made in America, Bill Bryson's Informal History of
the English Language in the United States. It is, in a word,
fascinating. After reading this tour de force, it's clear that a
nation's language speaks volumes about its true character: you are what
you speak. Bryson traces America's history through the language of the
time, then goes on to discuss words culled from everyday activities:
immigration, eating, shopping, advertising, going to the movies, and
others.
Made in America will supply you with interesting facts and cocktail
chatter for a year or more. Did you know, for example, that Teddy
Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick" credo has its roots in
a West African proverb? Or that actor Walter Matthau's given name is
Walter Mattaschanskayasky? Or that the supposedly frigid Puritans--who
called themselves "Saints," by the way--had something called a
pre-contract, which was a license for premarital sex? Made in America is
an excellent discussion of American English, but what makes the book
such a treasure is that it offers much, much more.
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