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Flexner, Stuart Berg.
I Hear America Talking :
An iIlustrated History of American Words and Phrases /
by Stuart Berg Flexner.
1st Touchstone ed.
New York, NY :
Simon and Schuster,
1979.
©1976.
505 p :
ill. ; softcover ;
29 cm.
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Touchstone Book, A
Includes index.
Here are thousands of words, phrases, and names that Americans have fought over, cried over, laughed over---words that reveal America from colonial times to the present, words that made the American language uniquely American because they represent ideas, events, attitudes, places and things that are intrinsically ours.
20011204.
Americanisms.
English language
Slang.
American words and phrases.
A Touchstone Book.