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Contents

	Preface to Third Edition			vii–ix
I.	Introductory			1
	1.	The Diverging Streams of English		1
	2.	The Academic Attitude		5
	3.	The View of Writing Men		13
	4.	Foreign Observers		26
	5.	The General Character of American English		29
	6.	The Materials of the Inquiry		40
II.	The Beginnings of American			47
	1.	The First Differentiation		47
	2.	Sources of Early Americanisms		53
	3.	New Words of English Material		57
	4.	Changed Meanings		64
	5.	Archaic English Words		67
	6.	Colonial Pronunciation		72
III.	The Period of Growth			77
	1.	Character of the New Nation		77
	2.	The Language in the Making		89
	3.	The Expanding Vocabulary		94
	4.	Loan Words and Non-English Influences		103
	5.	Pronunciation before the Civil War		113
IV.	American and English Today			116
	1.	The Two Vocabularies		116
	2.	Differences in Usage		120
	3.	Honorifics		138
	4.	Euphemisms		145
	5.	Expletives and Forbidden Words		150
V.	International Exchanges			159
	1.	Americanisms in England		159
	2.	Briticisms in the United States		170

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