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| Year: | 1781 | |
| Short description: | Witherspoon coins the term 'Americanism' | |
| Medium description: | Scottish clergyman (Crystal), John Witherspoon coins the term 'Americanism' in the Pensylvania Journal (Tottie) Coined by analogy with term 'Scotticism' (Algeo) | |
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- Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.382]
- Tottie, G. (2005). An Introduction to American English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. [p.94]
- Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.424]
- Algeo, John (2001). The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume vi English in North America. Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press [p.-11]