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Contents
- Introductory
- The Beginnings of American
- The Period of Growth
- American and English Today
- International Exchanges
- Tendencies in American
- The Standard American Pronunciation
- American Spelling
- The Common Speech
- Proper Names in America
- American Slang
- The Future of the Language
Appendices:
- Specimens of the American Vulgate
- Non-English Dialects in America
- Proverb and Platitude
Bibliography:
- General
- Dictionaries of Americanism
- The Process of Language Growth
- Loan-Words
- Pronunciation
- Regional Variations
- Spelling
- Geographical Names
- Surnames and Given Names
- Non-English Languages in America
- Other Colonial Dialects of English
- Slang
- Euphemisms, Nicknames, and Forbidden Words
- Rudimentary Speech
- The Future of the Language
- Bibliographies of American English
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