TY  - BOOK
TI  - Made in América: an informal history of the english laguage in the United States
SN  - 978-0-380-71381-3
U1  - 420.973 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Collins Publishers
KW  - ENSAYO
KW  - HISTORIA ESTADOS UNIDOS
KW  - HUMOR
KW  - LINGUÍSTICA
KW  - 420.973 - Lengua inglesa por personas de Estados Unidos
N1  - Includes notes on sources, select bibliography, index
N2  - Introduction. The mayflower and before. Becoming Americans. A ´democratical phrenzy´: America in the age of revolution. Making a nation. By the dawn´s early light: forging a national identity. We´re in the money:The age of invention. Names. ´Manifest destiny´: Taming the west. The melting pot: immigration in America. When the going was good: Travel in America. What´s cooking?: Eating in America. Democratizing luxuri; Shopping in America. Manners and other matters. The hard sell: Advertising in America. The movies. The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play. Of bombs and bunkum: Politics and war. Sex and other distractions. From kitty hawk to the jumbo jet. Welcome to the space age: The 1950s and beyond. America english today; “A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA TodayBill 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.”
ER  -