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Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
An American expatriate living in London explores the historical and cultural differences between American and British versions of English, covering snacking habits, overall collective personalities, dating and sex, drinking and raising kids. --Publisher's description.
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from George Carlin and James Baldwin to Richard Rodr�iguez and Amy Tan, from Tony Kushner and Toni Morrison to Louise Erdrich and Donald Trump. This volume is a kind...
5) The American way of writing: how to communicate like a native at school, at work, and on the road
Author
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book explains the uniquely American cultural references that appear in American English for students and professionals to increase their written command of the language." --
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary. When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful...
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