Allan A. Metcalf has written 9 work(s)
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9780618443741 | Houghton Mifflin, July 14, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A professor of English and expert on American language examines the broad sweep of presidential speech, identifying the various ways in which presidents have communicated with the American public and their rhetorical expectations of his role.
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9780618130061 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Examines the phenomenon of new word creation, offering criteria for predicting the success of new words and including the American Dialect Society's listing of words of the year from 1991 to 2001.
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9780618130085 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 14, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the phenomenon of new word creation, offering criteria for predicting the success of new words and including the American Dialect Society's listing of words of the year from 1991 to 2001.
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9780618406920 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.00
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9780618043637 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Provides a study of the distinctive characteristics, dialects, cultural innovations, and ethnic eccentricities of American regional English, discussing the unique qualities of language in the South, New England, and the Midwest.
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9780618043620 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Provides a study of the distinctive characteristics, dialects, cultural innovations, and ethnic eccentricities of American regional English, discussing the unique qualities of language in the South, New England, and the Midwest.
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9780395959206 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An international tour of words that have shaped the English language explores the etymology of words such as paradise, siesta, geyser, justice, tattoo, and zombie
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9780155017092 | Harcourt College Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $26.95
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9780395860205 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Offers a chronological history of famous American words and expressions, such as hot dog, bayou, bogus, and cafeteria
9780788192548 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This unique and fascinating history of this country's language, chronicles, year by year, the contributions which have been made to the vocabulary of English and the words which have been embraced as the nation has evolved.
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9780618002702 | Houghton Mifflin, September 13, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a chronological history of famous American words and expressions, such as hot dog, bayou, bogus, and cafeteria
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9780155014817 | 2 edition (Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1994), cover price $29.95
9780155766044 | Harcourt College Pub, March 1, 1991, cover price $16.96
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9780817306946 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $16.00
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9780872811072 | Center for Applied Linguistics, December 1, 1979, cover price $3.95
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