The American Language — General

H. L. Mencken

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[A few duplications will be found here. I have thought it better to make them than to use cross-references. In three or four cases works listed are marked not published. I have examined all of these; they will be published later on.]

A. F. L.: English As She Is Spoke, Baltimore Evening Sun, Nov. 18, 1920.

Aldington, Richard: English and American, Poetry, May, 1920.

Alford, Henry: A Plea for the Queens English; London, 1863.

Allen, Grant: Americanisms (in Chambers Encyclopaedia, new ed.; Phila., 1906, vol. i).

Anon.: American English (in America From a French Point of View; London, 1897).

——: Art. Americanisms, Everyman Encyclopaedia, ed. by Andrew Boyle; London, n. d.

——: Art. Americanisms, New International Encyclopaedia, 2nd ed., ed. by F. M. Colby and Talcott Williams; New York, 1917.

——: Americanisms, a Study of Words and Manners, Southern Review, vol. ix, p. 290 and p. 529.

——: Americanisms, Academy, March 2, 1889.

——: Americanisms, Southern Literary Messenger, Oct., 1848.

——: British Struggles With Our Speech, Literary Digest, June 19, 1915.

——: I Speak United States, Saturday Review, Sept. 22, 1894.

——: Our Strange New Language, Literary Digest, Sept. 16, 1916.

——: Progress of Refinement, New York Organ, May 29, 1847.

——: Some So-called Americanisms, All the Year Round, vol. 1xxvi, p. 38.

——: The American English, Critic, vol. xiii, p. 115.

——: The American Language, Putnam&#146;s Magazine, Nov., 1870.

——: The Great American Language, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 1viii, p. 363.

——: They Spake With Diverse Tongues, Atlantic Monthly, July, 1909.

——: To Teach the American Tongue in Britain, Literary Digest, Aug. 9, 1913.

——: Triumphant Americanisms, New York Evening Post, June 11, 1921.

Archer, William: America and the English Language, Pall Mall Magazine, Oct., 1898.

——: The American Language (in America To-day; New York, 1899).

Ayres, Harry Morgan: The English Language in America (in The Cambridge History of American Literature; New York, 1921, vol. iv).

Bache, Richard Meade: Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech, 2nd ed.; Phila., 1869.

Baker, Franklin T.: The Vernacular (in Munros Principles of Secondary Education; New York, 1915, ch. ix).

Barentz, A. E.: Woordenboek der Engelsche Spreektaal and Americanisms Amsterdam, 1894.

Barringer, G. A.: Étude sur IAnglais parlé aux États Unis (la Langue Améri-caine), Actes de la Société Philologique de Paris, March, 1874.

Bendelari, George: Curiosities of American Speech, New York Sun, Nov., 1895.

Benet, W. C.: Americanisms: English as Spoken and Written in the United States; Abbeville (S. C.), 1880.

Bicknall, Frank N.: The Yankee in British Fiction, Outlook, vol. xcvi, 1910.

Bowen, Edwin W.: Briticisms vs. Americanisms, Popular Science Monthly, vol. 1xix, p. 324.

——: Questions at Issue in Our English Speech; New York, 1914.

Bradley, W. A.: In Shakespeares America, Harper&#146;s Magazine, Aug., 1915.

Bristed, Charles A.: The English Language in America (in Cambridge Essays; London, 1855).

Bryant, William Cullen: Index Expurgatorius (reprinted in Helpful Hints in Writing and Reading, by Grenville Kleiser; New York, 1911, p. 15).

Burton, Richard: American English (in Literary Likings; Boston, 1899).

Carter, Alice P.: American English, Critic, vol. xii, p. 97.

Channing, William Ellery: The American Language and Literature, North American Review, Sept., 1815.

Charters, W. W. (and Edith Miller): A Course of Study in Grammar Based Upon the Grammatical Errors of School Children of Kansas City, Mo., University of Missouri Bulletin, vol. xvi, No. 2, Jan., 1915.

Chesterton, Cecil: British Struggles With Our Speech (summary of art. in New Witness), Literary Digest, June 19, 1915.

Chubb, Percival: The Menace of Pedantry in the Teaching of English, School Review, vol. xx, Jan., 1912.

Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain): Concerning the American Language (in The Stolen White Elephant; New York, 1888).

Coxe, A. Cleveland: Americanisms in England, Forum, Oct., 1886.

Crane, W. W.: The American Language, Putnam&#146;s Monthly, vol. xvi, p. 519.

Crosland, T. W.: The Abounding American; London, 1907.

Darling, Gertrude: Standards in English, Education, vol. xvii, p. 331.

Dilnot, Frank: The Written and Spoken Word (in The New America; New York, 1919).

Eggleston, Edward: Wild Flowers of English Speech in America, Century Magazine, April, 1894.

Field, Eugene: London letter in Chicago News, March 10, 1890.

Flūgel, Felix: Die Englische Philologie in Nordamerika, Gersdorf&#146;s Repertorium, 1852.

——: Die Englische Sprache in Nordamerika, Archiv fūr das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, band iv, heft i; Braunschweig, 1848.

Fowler, H. W. (and F. G. Fowler): The Kings English, 2nd ed.; Oxford, 1908. Fowler, Wm. C.: The English Language, 2nd ed.; New York, 1855.

Freeman, Edward A.: Some Points in American Speech and Customs, Longmans&#146; Magazine, Nov., 1882.

Gerek, William (and others): Is There Really Such a Thing as the American Language? New York Sun, March 10, 1918.

Gould, Edward S.: Good English New York, 1867.

Grandgent, C. H.: English in America, Die Neueren Sprachen, vol. ii, p. 243 and p. 520.

Hall, Fitzward: Sundry Americanisms, Nation, vol. 1vii, p. 484.

——: Americanisms Again, Academy, vol. x1vii, p. 278.

——: The American Dialect, Academy, vol. x1iii, p. 265.

——: English, Rational and Irrational, Nineteenth Century, Sept., 1880.

——: Modern English; New York, 1873.

——: Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; New York, 1872.

Hartt, Irene Widdemar: Americanisms, Education, vol. xiii, p. 367.

Hastings, Basil MacDonald: More Americanisms (interview), New York Tribune, Jan. 19, 1913.

Healy, J. F.: The American Language; Pittsburgh, 1910.

Hempl, George: The Study of American English, Chautauquan, vol. xxii, p. 436.

Herrig, Ludwig: Die Englische Sprache und Literatur in Nord-Amerika, Archiv fūr das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. xii, p. 241; vol. xiii, p. 76 and p. 241; vol. xiv, p. 1.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworţh: English and American Phrases, Independent, vol. 1ii, p. 410.

——: English and American Speech, Harper&#146;s Bazar, vol. xxx, p. 958.

Hill, Adams Sherman: Our English; New York, 1889.

Hodgins, Joseph L.: Our Common Speech, New York Sun, March 1, 1918.

Holliday, Robert Cortes: Caunt Speak the Language (in Walking-Stick Papers; New York, 1918, p. 201).

Howells, William Dean: The Editors Study, Harper&#146;s Magazine, Jan., 1886.

Hughes, Rupert: Our Statish Language, Harper&#146;s Magazine, May, 1920.

Hurd, Seth T.: A Grammatical Corrector or Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech Phila., 1847.

J. D. J.: American Conversation, English Journal, April, 1913.

James, Henry: Tĥe Question of Our Speech; Boston, 1905.

Kartzke, Georg: Die Amerikanische Sprache, Archiv fūr das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 1921, p. 181.

Knortz, Karl: Amerikanische Redensarten und Volksgebräuche, Leipzig, 1907.

Krapp, George Philip: Modern English; New York, 1910.

Lang, Andrew: Americanisms, London Academy, March 2, 1895.

Lienemann, Oskar: Eigentūmlichkeiten des Engl. d. Vereinigten Staaten Nebst Wenig Bekannten Amerikanismen; Zittau, 1886.

Lloyd, R. J.: Northern English; Leipzig, 1908.

Lodge, Henry Cabot: The Origin of Certain Americanisms, Scribner&#146;s Magazine, June, 1907.

——: Shakespeares Americanisms (in Certain Accepted Heroes; New York, 1897).

Lounsbury, Thomas R.: Americanisms Real or Reputed, Harper&#146;s Magazine, Sept., 1913.

Lounsbury, Thomas R.: Differences in English and American Usage, Harper&#146;s Magazine, July, 1913.

——: The English of America, International Review, vol. viii, p. 472.

——: A History of the English Language, revised ed.; New York, 1907.

——: Linguistic Causes of Americanisms, Harper&#146;s Magazine, June, 1913.

——: Scotticisms and Americanisms, Harper&#146;s Magazine, Feb., 1913.

——: The Standard of Usage in English; New York and London, n. d.

——: What Americanisms Are Not, Harper&#146;s Magazine, March, 1913.

Low, Sidney: Ought American to be Taught in Our Schools? Westminster Gazette, July 18, 1913.

Lowell, James Russell: prefaces to The Biglow Papers, 1st and 2nd series; Cambridge, 1848-66.

Mackay, Charles: The Ascertainment of English, Nineteenth Century, Jan., 1890.

Mackintosh, Duncan: Essai Raisonné sur la Grammaire et la Prononciation Anglaise Boston, 1797.

Marshall, Archibald: American English and the English Language, North American Review, Nov., 1921.

Matthews, Brander: Americanisms and Briticisms New York, 1892.

——: American English and British English (in Essays on English, New York, 1921.)

——: Outskirts of the English Language, Munsey&#146;s Magazine, Nov., 1913.

——: Parts of Speech; New York, 1901.

——: Why Not Speak Your Own Language? Delineator, Nov., 1917.

Mead, Theo. H.: Our Mother Tongue; New York, 1890.

Mencken, H. L.: The American: His Language, Smart Set, Aug., 1913.

——: The American Language Again, New York Evening Mail, Nov. 22, 1917.

——: American Pronouns, Baltimore Evening Sun, Oct. 25, 1910.

——: How They Say It Over There, New York Evening Mail, Oct. 25, 1917.

——: More American, Baltimore Evening Sun, Oct. 20, 1910.

——: Moulding Our Speech, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 18, 1917.

——: Notes on the American Language, Baltimore Evening Sun, Sept. 7, 1916.

——: The Two Englishes, Baltimore Evening Sun, Sept. 15, 1910.

Molee, Elias: Nu Tutonish, an International Union Language; Tacoma, 1906.

——: Plea for an American Language Chicago, 1888.

——: Pure Saxon English; or, Americans to the Front; Chicago, 1890.

——: Tutonish; Tacoma (Wash.), n. d.

——: Tutonish, or, Anglo-German Union Tongue; Chicago, 1902.

Moon, G. Washington: The Deans English, 7th ed.; New York, 1884.

Newcomen, George: Americanisms and Archaisms, Academy, vol. x1vii, p. 317.

Phipson, Evacustes A.: British vs. American English, Dialect Notes, vol. i, pt. i, 1889.

Proctor, Richard A.: Americanisms, Knowledge, vol. vii, p. 171.

——: English and American-English, New York Tribune, Aug. 14, 1881.

——: English As She is Spoke in America, Knowledge, vol. vi, p. 319.

Rambeau, A.: Amerikanisches, Die Neueren Sprachen, vol. ii, p. 53.

Read, Richard P.: The American Language, New York Sun, March 7, 1918.

Read, Richard P.: The American Tongue, New York Sun, Feb. 26, 1918.

Russell, T. Baron: Current Americanisms; London, 1893.

Schele de Vere, M.: Americanisms: the English of the New World; New York, 1872.

——: Studies in English; New York, 1867.

Schulz, Carl B.: The Kings English at Home, New York Evening Mail, Oct. 29, 1917.

Shipman, Carolyn: The American Language, Critic, new series, vol. xxxvi, p. 81.

Smith, Chas. Forster: Americanisms, Southern Methodist Quarterly, Jan., 1891.

Spies, Heinrich: Die Englische Sprache und das Neue England; Langensalza, 1921.

Stearns, Charles W.: Americanisms in Shakespeares Plays (in Shakespeare Treasury of Wisdom; New York, 1869).

Swinton, William: English in America (in Rambles Among Words; New York, 1872).

Sykes, Fred H.: American Speech and Standard English, Our Language, vol. ii, p. 52.

Trench, Richard C.: English Past and Present; London, 1855; rev. ed., 1905.

——: On the Study of Words; London, 1851; rev. ed., 1904.

Tucker, Gilbert M.: American English; New York, 1921.

——: American English (in Our Common Speech; New York, 1895).

——: American English, North American Review, April, 1883.

——: American English, a Paper Read Before the Albany Institute, July 6, 1882, With Revision and Additions; Albany, 1883.

Tuttle, R. M.: Americanisms, Athenæum, vol. i, p. 209.

Untermeyer, Louis: Whitman and the American Language, New York Evening Post, May 31, 1919.

Van der Voort, J. H.: Hedendaagsche Amerikanismen; Gouda (Holland), 1894.

Wardlaw, Patterson: Simpler English, Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, no. 38, pt. iii, July, 1914.

Warren, Arthur: Real Americanisms, Boston Herald, Nov. 20, 1892.

Watts, Harvey M.: Prof. Lounsbury and His Rout of the Dons on Americanisms, Philadelphia Public Ledger, April 16, 1915.

Wetherill, George N.: The American Language, Anglo-Continental, Jan., 1894.

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide: Americanisms (in Johnsons Cyclopedia, new ed.; New York, 1893).

Whibley, Charles: The American Language, Bookman, Jan., 1908.

White, Richard Grant: American Speech (in Every-Day English; Boston, 1880).

——: Americanisms, parts i-viii, Atlantic Monthly, April, May, July, Sept., Nov., 1878; Jan., March, May, 1879.

——: British Americanisms, Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880.

——: Every-Day English Boston, 1880.

——: Some Alleged Americanisms, Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1883.

——: British-English and American-English (in Words and Their Uses; New York, 1870; rev. ed., New York, 1876).

Whitman, Walt: An American Primer; Boston, 1904.

Williams, Ralph O.: Some Peculiarities, Real and Supposed, in American English (in Our Dictionaries and Other English Language Topics; New York, 1890).

Witherspoon, John: various notes on Americanisms in vol. iv of his Works; Phila., 1801.

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