TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Original spelling and grammar has mostly been retained. Many inconsistencies in the use of hyphens and character accents have been retained; some of these were intentional. Footnotes were moved to the ends of chapters. The original pagination of this 1919 edition is shown in square brackets, e. g. [Pg009].
Further details are provided in the [TRANSCRIBER'S ENDNOTE].
THE
AMERICAN LANGUAGE
OF THE FIRST EDITION OF
THIS BOOK FIFTEEN HUNDRED
COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED
AND THE TYPE DISTRIBUTED
THIS IS NUMBER 1434
THE
AMERICAN LANGUAGE
A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development
of English in the United States