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

ISBN-13:	9780380713813
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/23/2001
Series:	Harper Perennial
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	207,901
Product dimensions:	5.26(w) x 8.03(h) x 1.06(d)

“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA Today Bill Bryson celebrates America’s 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 call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”