Title | : | made in america |
---|---|---|
Author | : | Bill Bryson |
Release | : | 2015-06-02 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Language Arts & Disciplines, Books, Professional & Technical, Education, Humor, History, Reference, Foreign Languages, Nonfiction, Social Science, Writing Reference, Society, World History, History of the Americas, Travel & Adventure, Sociology, Dictionaries & Thesauruses, U.S. History, Linguistics |
Size | : | 2237313 |
“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.” |