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12) An American glossary: being an attempt to illustrate certain Americanisms upon historical principles
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
1912.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its 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 called his be feathered cap "Macaroni."