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Explores "the origin and history of many of our most delightful words ... [and] the changing cultural conditions that produced them. With chapters on Americanisms, cyberspace, advertising, fighting words, fitness, geography, economics, sex, crime, gender, generation gaps, and many other subjects."--Jacket.… (plus d'informations)
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I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused for following, Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sound of day and night... I hear the chorus.... --Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
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To the memory of Stuart Berg Flexner March 22, 1928 - December 3, 1990 who listened to America, heard America talking, and brought the people's history back to them -- in their own words.
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Introduction: Though history teaches us much about our country and the many strands that make its culture, the language of us, the people is an uncompromising mirror of that very history and culture, an unretouched record of the thoughts, feelings, dreams, successes, failures, and intent of the people.
Explores "the origin and history of many of our most delightful words ... [and] the changing cultural conditions that produced them. With chapters on Americanisms, cyberspace, advertising, fighting words, fitness, geography, economics, sex, crime, gender, generation gaps, and many other subjects."--Jacket.
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