Ebook: Splendiferous speech: how early Americans pioneered their own brand of English

"SPLENDIFEROUS SPEECH explores the historical sources of the American vernacular, tracing our country's linguistic independence back to the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the sensation-filled pages of popular nineteenth-century newspapers"--;American talk -- One English becomes two -- The two Englishes part ways -- An American tongue -- Words from the West -- Slang-whanging in Congress -- American words in the news -- American English takes its station -- A collection of words "peculiar to the United States" -- The words keep coming -- Epilogue : the American way with words.