The American Language

Contents

 * /Preface to the First Edition/
 * /Preface to the Second Edition/


 * Introductory
 * The Diverging Streams of English
 * The Academic Attitude
 * The View of Writing Men
 * Foreign Observers
 * The General Character of American English
 * The Materials of the Inquiry
 * The Beginnings of American
 * The First Differentiation
 * Sources of Early Americanisms
 * New Words of English Material
 * Changed Meaning
 * Archaic English Words
 * Colonial Pronunciation
 * The Period of Growth
 * Character of the New Nation
 * The Language in the Making
 * The Expanding Vocabulary
 * Loan-Words and Non-English Influences
 * Pronunciation Before the Civil War
 * American and English Today
 * The Two Vocabularies
 * Differences in Usage
 * Honorifics
 * Euphemisms
 * Expletives and Forbidden Words
 * International Exchanges
 * Americanisms in England
 * Briticisms in the United States
 * Tendencies in American
 * General Characters
 * Lost Distinctions
 * Processes of Word-Formation
 * Foreign Influences Today
 * The Standard American Pronunciation
 * General Characters
 * The Vowels
 * American Spelling
 * The Two Orthographies
 * The Influence of Webster
 * The Advance of American Spelling
 * British Spelling in the United States
 * Simplified Spelling
 * The Treatment of Loan-Words
 * Minor Differences
 * The Common Speech
 * Grammarians and Their Ways
 * Spoken American As It Is
 * The Verb
 * The Pronoun
 * The Adverb
 * The Noun
 * The Adjective
 * The Double Negative
 * Other Syntactical Peculiarities
 * Vulgar Pronunciation
 * Proper Names in America
 * Surnames
 * Given Names
 * Geographical Names
 * Street Names
 * American Slang
 * Its Origin and Nature
 * War Slang
 * The Future of the Language
 * English as a world language
 * English or American?

Appendices:
 * Specimens of the American Vulgate
 * The Declaration of Independence in American
 * Baseball-American
 * Ham-American
 * Vers Américain
 * Non-English Dialects in America
 * German
 * French
 * Spanish
 * Yiddish
 * Italian
 * Dano-Norwegian
 * Swedish
 * Dutch
 * Icelandic
 * Greek
 * The Slavic Languages
 * Proverb and Platitude

Bibliography:
 * General
 * Dictionaries of Americanism
 * The Process of Language Growth
 * Loan-Words
 * Pronunciation
 * Regional Variations
 * General Discussions
 * New England
 * The Middle States
 * The South
 * The Middle West
 * The Far West
 * The Colonies
 * Negro-English
 * Spelling
 * Geographical Names
 * Surnames and Given Names
 * Non-English Languages in America
 * German
 * French
 * Dano-Norwegian
 * Dutch
 * Swedish
 * Spanish
 * Icelandic
 * Italian
 * Yiddish
 * Portuguese
 * General
 * Other Colonial Dialects of English
 * Australian
 * Beach-la-Mar
 * South African
 * Canadian
 * East Indian
 * Pidgin-English
 * Slang
 * Euphemisms, Nicknames, and Forbidden Words
 * Rudimentary Speech
 * The Future of the Language
 * Bibliographies of American English