Bryson, Bill : Made in America
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Made in America will supply you with interesting facts and cocktail chatter for a year or more. Did you know, for example, that Teddy Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick" credo has its roots in a West African proverb? Or that actor Walter Matthau's given name is Walter Mattaschanskayasky? Or that the supposedly frigid Puritans--who called themselves "Saints," by the way--had something called a pre-contract, which was a license for premarital sex? Made in America is an excellent discussion of American English, but what makes the book such a treasure is that it offers much, much more.
| Condition: |  |
| Category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > |
| Category: | Books > Bestseller > |
| Publisher: | Minerva, 1997 |
| Item number / ISBN: | 9780749397395 |
| Binding: | paperback |
| Page count: | 478 |
| Item language: | English |
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