Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her 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."
This successor to the popular The Mother Tongue presents a brilliant, one-of-a-kind history not only of American words, but of America through words. Filled with hugely entertaining anecdotes about the way American English came to be, Made In America is "delightful . . . exuberantly informative." (Washington Post Book World).
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