by Bill Bryson
28 Flexner, op. cit., pp. 452–5.
29 American Heritage, October 1973, p. 86.
30 The Economist, 14 March 1992, p. 51.
31 Barnett, Sexual Freedom and the Constitution, p. 33.
32 Allen, Only Yesterday, p. 77.
33 Flexner, op. cit., p. 62.
34 Schumach, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, p. 18.
35 Allen, op. cit., p. 84.
36 American Heritage, February/March 1980, p. 17.
37 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., pp. 360–1.
38 Berg, Goldwyn, pp. 266–7.
39 Schumach, op. cit., p. 216.
40 Ibid., p.222.
41 American Heritage, February/March 1980, p. 20.
42 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 1, p. 647.
43 Ibid., p. 646.
44 Castleman and Podrazik, Watching TV, p. 14.
45 Ibid., p. 71.
46 Ernst and Schwarz, Censorship, p. 95.
47 Sagarin, The Anatomy of Dirty Words, p. 167.
48 Safire, Coming to Terms, p. 51.
49 The Economist, 28 November 1992, p. 35.
50 Safire, op. cit., p. 100.
51 Letter from Allan M. Siegal, 23 July 1993.
52 Funk, A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions, p. 88.
53 Buffalo News, 20 September 1992.
19: The Road from Kitty Hawk
1 American Heritage, June 1970, pp. 61–9.
2 Moolman, The Road to Kitty Hawk, p. 124.
3 American Heritage, June 1970, pp. 61–9.
4 Moolman, op. cit., p. 117.
5 Ibid., p. 158.
6 American Heritage, April 1975, pp. 94–5.
7 Milton, Loss of Eden, p. 42.
8 Ibid., p. 116; and American Heritage, April 1971, pp. 43–7, 81–4.
9 Milton, op. cit., p. 127.
10 American Heritage, December 1975, pp. 23–8.
11 Milton, op. cit., p. 166.
12 Johnson, Modern Times, p. 224.
13 Condé Nast Traveler, December 1989, pp. 135–78.
14 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 4, p. 780.
15 American Heritage, August 1973, pp. 63–85.
20: Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond
1 Lingeman, Don’t You Know There’s a War On?, p. 374.
2 Atlantic Monthly, January 1990, p. 48.
3 The Economist, 21 December 1991, p. 72.
4 Oakley, God’s Country, p. 270.
5 Ibid., pp. 285–6.
6 Kroc, Grinding It Out, p. 162.
7 Love, McDonald’s, p. 5.
8 Guardian, 10 May 1993.
9 Binford, The First Suburbs, p. 1.
10 American Heritage, February/March 1984, pp. 21–37.
11 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 245.
12 American Demographics, May 1993, p. 44.
13 Independent on Sunday, 15 November 1992, p. 8.
14 Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, p. 246
15 Ibid., p. 247; and Schrank, Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste, p. 65.
16 Brooks, Business Adventures, p. 35.
17 Lacey, Ford, p. 489.
18 Brooks, op. cit., p. 31.
19 Rae, The Road and the Car in American Life, p. 48.
20 Schrank, op. cit., p. 64.
21 American Speech, 66/1 (1991), pp. 105–6.
22 The Economist, 26 October 1991, America Survey, pp. 11–12.
23 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, pp. 591–2.
24 R. Bailey, Images of English, p. 221.
25 Tedlow, New and Improved, p. 348.
26 Life, 3 March 1961, pp. 109–17.
27 Flatow, They All Laughed, p. 181.
28 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 263.
29 The Economist, 9 January 1993, p. 62.
30 New York Times, 3 April 1989, p. 1.
31 Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 2 August 1992, p. M1.
32 American Heritage, June 1970, p. 59.
21: American English Today
1 Atlantic Monthly, November 1990, p. 84.
2 New York Times, 21 January 1992, p. C6.
3 Atlantic Monthly, August 1990, pp. 28–33.
4 Ibid., p. 28.
5 The Economist, 8 August 1992, p. 41.
6 Ibid., 18 January 1992, p. 80.
7 Atlantic Monthly, November 1990, p. 87.
8 Ibid., August 1990, p. 30.
9 Schor, The Overworked American, p. 13.
10 American Heritage, May/June 1988, p. 10.
11 The Economist, 10 October 1992, p. 63.
12 The Economist, 18 July 1992, p. 49.
13 New York Times, 26 July 1992, p. E5.
14 Washington Post, 28 March 1993, p. A15.
15 Nation, 12 October 1992, p. 405.
16 US News & World Report, 22 June 1992, pp. 29–31.
17 Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage, p. 17.
18 New York Times, 5 April 1987, p. 1.
19 Maggio, op. cit., p. 173.
20 Ibid., p. 112.
21 Editor & Publisher, 6 March 1993, p. 48.
22 Education Digest, May 1987.
23 The Economist, 18 January 1992, p. 80.
24 Ibid., 16 December 1992, p. 58.
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