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Index
Cover
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Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
I. The Two Streams of English
1. The Earliest Alarms
2. The English Attack
3. American “Barbarisms”
4. The English Attitude Today
5. The Position of the Learned
6. The Views of Writing Men
7. The Political Front
8. Foreign Observers
II. The Materials of Inquiry
1. The Hallmarks of American
2. What is an Americanism?
III. The Beginnings of American
1. The First Loan-Words
2. New Words of English Material
3. Changed Meanings
4. Archaic English Words
IV. The Period of Growth
1. A New Nation in the Making
2. The Expanding Vocabulary
3. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences
V. The Language Today
1. After the Civil War
2. The Making of New Nouns
3. Verbs
4. Other Parts of Speech
5. Foreign Influences Today
VI. American and English
1. The Infiltration of English by Americanisms
2. Surviving Differences
3. English Difficulties with American
4. Briticisms in the United States
5. Honorifics
6. Euphemisms
7. Forbidden Words
8. Expletives
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