TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engel,Matthew
TI  - That's the way it crumbles: the American conquest of English 
SN  - 9781781256688 (hbk.) :
AV  - PE2808 
U1  - 427.973 ENG 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - Americanisms
KW  - English language
KW  - Variation
KW  - United States
KW  - Languages
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now. In this book Matthew Engel presents a call to arms against the linguistic impoverishment that happens when one language dominates another
ER  -