American Language Supplement 2 by Mencken, H.L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Preface Table of Contents VII. The Pronunciation of American

1. Its General Characters 2. The Vowels 3. The Consonants 4. Dialects

VIII. American Spelling

1. The Influence of Noah Webster 2. The Advance of American Spelling 3. The Simplified Spelling Movement 4. The Treatment of Loan-Words 5. Punctuation, Capitalization, and Abbreviation

IX. The Common Speech

1. Outlines of Its Grammar 2. The Verb 3. The Pronoun 4. The Noun 5. The Adjective 6. The Adverb 7. The Double Negative 8. Other Syntactical Peculiarities

X. Proper Names in America

1. Surnames 2. Given Names 3. Place-Names 4. Other Proper Names

XI. American Slang

1. The Nature of Slang 2. Cant and Argot

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