Description
"A literate exploration of why we use--or mangle--our native tongue."--USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America's 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."
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 10/23/2001
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.34w x 1.07d
ISBN13: 9780380713813
ISBN10: 0380713810
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Historical & Comparative
- History | United States | General
- Humor | Form | Essays