Made in America - An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Bill Bryson's bestselling books include One Summer, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue. He lives in England with his wife. Klappentext Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue , now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap "Macaroni." Zusammenfassung Bill Bryson! bestselling author of The Mother Tongue ! now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap "Macaroni."

Product details

• Authors: Bill Bryson
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2001
• EAN: 9780380713813
• ISBN: 978-0-380-71381-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE: Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, HISTORY: Social History, HISTORY: United States / 19th Century, HUMOR: Form / Essays, HISTORY: North America, HISTORY: Reference, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: ON LANGUAGE, REFERENCE: Dictionaries, TRAVEL: Reference, EDUCATION: Reference