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  Frozen_Lizard

  4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, interesting, Bryson

  Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023

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  This is a fun book. An overview of American history with an eye (or ear?) towards the origins of familiar words and phrases as well as some once popular words that have been forgotten.
  
  This isn't some dry, clinical, (boring) scholarly study; it's fun, conversational-style tale of how a brand new country absorbed, confiscated, and assimilated words and phrases from other languages to form it's very own.
  
  Great fun. Highly informative. Bill Bryson has done it again!

  

  

  Frozen_Lizard

  4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, interesting, Bryson
  Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023

  This is a fun book. An overview of American history with an eye (or ear?) towards the origins of familiar words and phrases as well as some once popular words that have been forgotten.
  
  This isn't some dry, clinical, (boring) scholarly study; it's fun, conversational-style tale of how a brand new country absorbed, confiscated, and assimilated words and phrases from other languages to form it's very own.
  
  Great fun. Highly informative. Bill Bryson has done it again!

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