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Author:

Steinmetz, Sol.

Title:

There's a word for it : the explosion of the American language since 1900 / Sol Steinmetz.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harmony Books,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

246 p. ; 19 cm.

Subject:

English language--United States--Lexicology.
English language--United States--New words.
English language--Social aspects--United States.
Language and culture--United States.

Notes:

Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The dawn of the twentieth century: 1900-1909 -- The ballroom decade and the Great War: 1910-1919 -- The roaring twenties: 1920-1929 -- The Great Depression: 1930-1939 -- World War II and postwar: 1940-1949 -- Midcentury- the affluent fifties: 1950-1959 -- The turbulent sixties: 1960-1969 -- The me decade: 1970-1979 -- The yuppie generation: 1980-1989 -- The World Wide Web: 1990-1999 -- The third millennium: 2000-2009 -- Conclusion: the new words lists.

ISBN:

0375426175
9780375426179

OCLC:

(OCoLC)290470352

LCCN:

2009034943

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)