The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) · 1956

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. OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BOOK FIFTEEN HUNDRED COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED AND THE TYPE DISTRIBUTED THIS IS NUMBER 1434…

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