A Fresh Look at American English: A Weird and Wonderful Language

By Wallace Goldstein

A delightful, easy-to-read book that discloses many of the mysteries of American English. The author reveals how and why the language is changing, how we acquire new words, and how we give meaningful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595182496
• ISBN13: 9780595182497
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Fresh Look At American English

DELIGHTFUL THROUGHOUTHave your participles been dangling lately in unsightly fashion? Perhaps pesky infinitives insist on splitting? No matter. Author Goldstein not only lets us dangle and split but encourages merriment in the process. With wry, tongue-in-cheek humor, he takes us into the pitfalls and pratfalls that have evolved in our language. Be ready to be charmed and beguiled by our unique American language which sometimes falls topsy-turvy all over itself. Plain fun reading and lots to learn from this first class scholar.