Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions as Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful as Themsel ves by Jeffrey McQuain

Never Enough Words: How Americans Invented Expressions as Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful as Themsel ves

Jeffrey McQuain

278 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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From native words to current coinages, the American vocabulary highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the national personality. In Never Enough Words, Jeffrey McQuain, the noted guest writer for William Safire's On Language column, offers...

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