Mr. Mencken has stowed probably 30,000 such odd data in the third of a million words and 700 text pages of his new fourth edition, which is the third so drastically rewritten and enlarged that no more ...
Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...
No, here they are. . . . Last night I had the lecturer’s vocational nightmare: I dreamed that I had lost my notes. Since this is a series of lectures concerning American characteristics, I must be ...
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly said, “I only speak American” during a meeting of world leaders with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it was meant to draw a line — between who belongs ...
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