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A systematic treatment of the English language and its changes over 300 (now 400) years. "Perhaps one cannot quite say that what seems new in American speech will most often be shown on further examination merely to be something old in a new surrounding." Krapp concludes the evidence is against a separate American language and supports a closer relationship with British English. An American English was not noted until the concept of an American nation evolved in the 18th Century. "Language has been one of the strongest binding forces in American experience."
