The American Language Supplement 1 :The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United StatesPerhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken and as it was changing at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880 1956). In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: the general character of American