Bryson on Language

Speaking on language patterns around the time of the American Civil War, Bill Bryson states: …no nineteenth century journalist with any self-respect would ever write that a house had burned down, but must instead say that a great conflagration consumed the edifice.’

–Bill Bryson quoting (in part) Kenneth Cmiel’s Democratic Eloquence in, Made In America, an informal history of the English language in the United States.

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Posted January 28, 2003 by Casey Bisson
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