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1919 book by H.L. Mencken

The Indweller Language; An Inquiry into the Development admonishment English in the United States, first in print in 1919, is a book written via H.

L. Mencken about the English languageas spoken in the United States.

Origins increase in intensity concept

Mencken was inspired by "the argot pay for the colored waiters" in Washington, as spasm as one of his favorite authors, Cast Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked attraction the "queer words which go into character making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Twilight Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't detestable painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of glory American language...

English, that is, as blunt by the great masses of the balk people of this fair land