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Speaking American: A History of English in the United States refugee books these works are the unmistakableAuthor Contributor(s): Bailey, Richard W Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date: 04 01 2015 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American