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CONTENTS
| VI. | Tendencies in American | 179 | ||
| 1. | General Characters | 179 | ||
| 2. | Lost Distinctions | 184 | ||
| 3. | Processes of Word-Formation | 180 | ||
| 4. | Foreign Influences Today | 204 | ||
| VII. | The Standard American Pronunciation | 213 | ||
| 1. | General Characters | 213 | ||
| 2. | The Vowels | 231 | ||
| VI. | American Spelling | 228 | ||
| 1. | The Two Orthographies | 228 | ||
| 2. | The Influence of Webster | 235 | ||
| 3. | The Advance of American Spelling | 243 | ||
| 4. | British Spelling in the United States | 246 | ||
| 5. | Simplified Spelling | 250 | ||
| 6. | The Treatment of Loan-Words | 255 | ||
| 7. | Minor Differences | 260 | ||
| IX. | The Common Speech | 262 | ||
| 1. | Grammarians and Their Ways | 262 | ||
| 2. | Spoken American as It Is | 269 | ||
| 3. | The Verb | 278 | ||
| 4. | The Pronoun | 298 | ||
| 5. | The Adverb | 312 | ||
| 6. | The Noun | 315 | ||
| 7. | The Adjective | 316 | ||
| 8. | The Double Negative | 318 | ||
| 9. | Other Syntactical Peculiarities | 320 | ||
| 10. | Vulgar Pronunciation | 321 | ||
| X. | Proper Names in America | 329 | ||
| 1. | Surnames | 329 | ||
| 2. | Given Names | 347 | ||
| 3. | Geographical Names | 352 | ||
| 4. | Street Names | 366 | ||
| XI. | American Slang | 369 | ||
| 1. | Its Origin and Nature | 369 | ||
| 2. | War Slang | 378 | ||
