Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”

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mare_e_vino26 января 2014 г.
Очень люблю Брайсона. Эту книгу пока отложила недочитанной. Интересно, про создание Штатов - абсолютно нового государства с нуля - с большим упором на становление американского английского. Большой объем информации, который надо переварить, желательно, располагая большим количеством свободного времени. В принципе, такие документальные книги не обязательно читать враз от корки до корки, их можно принимать в небольших дозах на протяжении длительного времени.
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linape23 июня 2019 г.
Previously Virginia had been called Windgancon, meaning ‘what gay clothes you wear’ – apparently what the locals had replied when an early reconnoitring party has asked them what they called the place.
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alexey_m_ukolov11 сентября 2021 г.
Alarmed by such figures, Congress in 1990 introduced the Children’s Television Act, mandating that stations show programs with some educational value. The result, alas, was not better programming but more creative program descriptions. One station described the cartoon series GI Joe as “a pedagogical tool” that “promoted social consciousness” and familiarized children with “the dangers of mass destruction.” Another described Chip ’n’ Dale Rescue Rangers as a valuable demonstration of “the rewards of team effort.” The Flintstones, meanwhile, was found to promote initiative and family values.
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alexey_m_ukolov11 сентября 2021 г.
As Rosalie Maggio points out in her thoughtful Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage, when Minnesota expunged gender-specific language from its lawbooks, it removed 301 feminine references from state statutes, but almost twenty thousand references to men.
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