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18 Dillard, American Talk, p. xiii.
19 Quoted in Mencken, op. cit., p. 29.
20 Ibid., p. 267.
21 Daniels, Famous Last Words, p. 43
22 Mencken, op. cit., p. 77.
23 Journal of American History, December 1992, p. 913.
24 Quoted in Mencken, op. cit., p. 87.
25 Marckwardt, American English, p. 70.
26 Journal of American History, December 1992, p. 928.
27 Quoted in Wortham, James Russell Lowell’s ‘The Biglow Papers’, p. xxii.
28 Dillard, All-American English, p. 73.
29 Quoted in Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 293.
30 Cmiel, op. cit., p. 66.
31 Letter to Lincoln, 25 November 1860, quoted in Harper Book of American Quotations, p. 121.
32 Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg, p. 90.
33 Cmiel, op. cit., p. 137.
34 Ibid., p. 144.
35 Wills, Inventing America, p. xiv.
6: We’re in the Money: The Age of Invention
1 American Heritage, August 1964, p. 93.
2 Ibid., August/September 1984, p. 20.
3 Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, p. 274.
4 Bursk, Clark and Hidy (eds.), The World of Business, vol. 2, p. 1251.
5 Commager, The American Mind, p. 5.
6 Daniels, Famous Last Words, p. 41.
7 Wylie, The Self-Made Man in America, p. 10.
8 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 115.
9 Flexner, Listening to America, pp. 365–6.
10 American Heritage, December 1989, p. 108.
11 Holt, Phrase and Word Origins, p. 5.
12 Flexner, op. cit., p. 364.
13 Root and de Rochement, Eating in America, p. 321.
14 Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p. 316.
15 American Heritage, October 1959, p. 38.
16 Zinn, op. cit., p. 327.
17 Flexner, op. cit., p. 452.
18 Burnam, The Dictionary of Misinformation, p. 37.
19 Ibid., p. 60.
20 Keeley, Making Inventions Pay, p. 10.
21 Gies and Gies, The Ingenious Yankees, pp. 208–10.
22 Barach, Famous American Trademarks, p. 75.
23 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 4, pp.822–3
24 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 245.
25 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 4, pp. 813–17.
26 American Heritage, September/October 1990, p. 58.
27 Ibid., April 1965, p. 95.
28 Ibid., p. 96.
29 Barnhart (ed.), The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, p. 1121.
30 New York Times, 26 July, 1992 p. E5.
31 The Economist, 13 April 1991, p. 83.
32 American Heritage, September/October 1990, p. 48.
33 Carver, op. cit., p. 242.
34 Gies and Gies, op. cit., p. 368.
35 Ibid., p. 311.
36 American Heritage, September/October 1990, pp. 48–59.
37 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 7, p. 858.
38 Ibid.
39 Zinn, op. cit., p. 248.
40 Collins, The Story of Kodak, p. 72.
41 Flatow, They All Laughed, p. 31.
42 American Heritage, November 1979, p. 76.
43 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 7, p. 858.
44 American Heritage, August/September 1978, p. 42.
45 Goldberger, The Skyscraper, p. 83.
7: Names
1 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 305.
2 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 312.
3 Krapp, The English Language in America, vol. 1, p. 175.
4 Stewart, Names on the Land, p. 64.
5 Ibid., p. 33.
6 Ibid., p. 258.
7 Fischer, Albion’s Seed, p. 420.
8 Stewart, op. cit., p. 58.
9 Ibid., p. 10.
10 American Demographics, February 1992, p. 21.
11 Stewart, op. cit., p. 70.
12 Ibid., p. 223.
13 Atlantic Monthly, November 1992, p. 149.
14 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 649.
15 Dillard, American Talk, p. 59.
16 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 2., p. 533.
17 Stewart, op. cit., p. 327.
18 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 4, pp. 473–4.
19 Fischer, op. cit., p. 654.
20 Rodgers, Chagrin ... Whence the Name?, pp. 1–13.
21 New Republic, 29 July 1991, p.8.
22 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 656.
23 Atlantic Monthly, September 1990, p. 20.
24 Stewart, op. cit., p. 344.
25 Ibid., pp. 166–7.
26 Ibid., p. 189.
27 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 686.
28 Lacey, Sir Walter Ralegh, p. 11.
29 Fischer, op. cit., p. 59.
30 Ibid., p. 94.
31 Ibid.
32 Levin, Cotton Mather, p. 1.
33 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 2., pp. 577–8.
34 Forbes, Paul Revere and the