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The American Language

H.L. Mencken

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1919
Pages
Pages 374

Thomas Jefferson coined the word belittle, and London reviewers howled that English was being defaced by colonials. H.

Such a term as rubber-neck is almost a complete treatise on American psychology
The American Language, H.L. Mencken

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