The American Language

Name: The American Language
Author: H.L. Mencken

by H.L. Mencken

Comprehensive study of American English and how it differs from British English

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H.L. Mencken

American journalist and satirist whose vitriolic wit and relentless mockery of American democracy, religion, and provincial culture dominated the 1920s. The American Language is his scholarly contribution to linguistics. He covered the Scopes Trial with gleeful contempt for the prosecution.

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