The English American
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The English American
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Author : Alison Larkin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-03-04
The English American written by Alison Larkin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-04 with Fiction categories.
When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. In many ways, Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite on toast, knows how to make a proper cup of tea, has attended a posh English boarding school, and finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword rather than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English family. Yet Pippa -- creative, disheveled, and impulsive to the core -- has always felt different from her perfectly poised, smartly coiffed sister and steady, practical parents, whose pastimes include Scottish dancing, gardening, and watching cricket. When Pippa learns at age twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South, she feels that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth mother, an untidy, artistic, free-spirited redhead, and her birth father, a charismatic (and politically involved) businessman in Washington, D.C.; and she moves to America to be near them. At the same time, she relies on the guidance of a young man with whom she feels a mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father and who, like her birth parents, seems to understand her in a way that no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her "self" and everything she thought she wanted. But has she? Caught between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely different men, Pippa is plunged into hilarious, heart-wrenching chaos. The birth father she adores turns out to be involved in neoconservative activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now refuses to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that... With an authentic adopted heroine at its center, Larkin's compulsively readable first novel unearths universal truths about love, identity, and family with wit, warmth, and heart.
The English American
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Author : Emma Homan Thayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
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The English In America
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Author : Henry Howard Brownell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
The English In America written by Henry Howard Brownell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with America categories.
The American Heritage Book Of English Usage
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Author : Editors of the American Heritage Di
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1996-09-09
The American Heritage Book Of English Usage written by Editors of the American Heritage Di and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-09 with Reference categories.
For the first time, the editors of the acclaimed American Heritage(R) Dictionary have applied their efforts to word usage as its own subject. The result is this practical guide that includes chapters on grammar, style, diction, gender, social groups, pronunciation, word formation, science terms, and a subject and a word index.
The English American
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Author : Emma Homan Thayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The English American written by Emma Homan Thayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with British Americans categories.
Americanisms
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Author : Maximilian Schele de Vere
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Americanisms written by Maximilian Schele de Vere and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This book describes the impact of American English on the English language in Great Britain. Schele de Vere analyzes the differences between American English and British English and compares the two dialects. The book includes examples of Americanisms and their usage in American English. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
That S The Way It Crumbles
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Author : Matthew Engel
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2017-06-08
That S The Way It Crumbles written by Matthew Engel and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now. In That's The Way It Crumbles Matthew Engel presents a call to arms against the linguistic impoverishment that happens when one language dominates another. With dismay and wry amusement, he traces the American invasion of our language from the early days of the New World, via the influence of Edison, the dance hall and the talkies, right up to the Apple and Microsoft-dominated present day, and explores the fate of other languages trying to fend off linguistic takeover bids. It is not the Americans' fault, more the result of their talent for innovation and our own indifference. He explains how America's cultural supremacy affects British gestures, celebrations and way of life, and how every paragraph and conversation includes words the British no longer even think of as Americanisms. Part battle cry, part love song, part elegy, this book celebrates the strange, the banal, the precious and the endangered parts of our uncommon common language.
A History Of American English
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Author : J. L. Dillard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
A History Of American English written by J. L. Dillard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
American English
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Author : Zoltan Kovecses
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2000-09-26
American English written by Zoltan Kovecses and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Americanisms
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Author : Maximilian Schele de Vere
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-08-20
Americanisms written by Maximilian Schele de Vere and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-20 with Social Science categories.
Excerpt from Americanisms: The English of the New World Hence We still speak English, but we talk American. The native of the New World may, in dress and appearance, in culture and refinement, pass unnoticed in European society, but no soon er does he open his lips, than his intonation, choice of words, and structure of sentence, betray his foreign birth. The difference is, in reality, very slight, but it is characteristic, and as there is no better key to the habits and temper of a people, than the study of its watchwords and nicknames, its likes and dislikes of terms and phrases, we have endeavored to collect enough of these peculiari ties to furnish an idea of the way we talk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.