The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Authored by Rosemarie Ostler)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century Author: Rosemarie Ostler Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred years, explaining both how and why it changed and which parts of the 'mother tongue' it preserved (I guess was heard in the British countryside long before it became a typical Americanism). Plentiful examples of the American vernacular, past and present, bring the language to life and make for an engaging as well as enlightening listen.