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Title The people's tongue : Americans and the English language / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Edition First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Publication Info. Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2023.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3059301~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  420.973 PEO    AVAILABLE
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Description 458 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Featuring a wealth of letters, poems, memoirs, jeremiads, stories, songs, and other documents, this history of American English, told by those who have transformed it, shows how it came to be an intrinsic component of the first and most influential democratic experiment in the world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject English language -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Languages, Mixed -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Americanisms -- History.
Americanisms -- Sources.
American literature.
Genre Informational works.
Added Author Stavans, Ilan, editor.
ISBN 9781632062659 hc.
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