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The American contribution to the English language


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With the Fourth of July right around the corner, Midmorning's word origin guru looks at how Americans have shaped the English language.

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  • Anatoly Liberman: Professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is "an Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology."

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