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Introduction: Allen Walker Read, American Scholar xi EARLY AMERICAN ENGLISH 1. Milestones in the Branching of British and American English 3 2. The Embattled Dominance of English in the United States 22 3. The Impact of "Ethnicity" on Attitudes toward the English Language 30 4. British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century 37 5. Amphi-Atlantic English 55 6. The Assimilation of the Speech of British Immigrants in Colonial America 83 7. The Distinguishing Features of American Talk 95 8. Words Indicating Social Status in America in the Eighteenth Century 104 9. The Allegiance to Dictionaries in American Linguistic Attitudes 11 O.K. 10. The First Stage in the History of O.K. 123 11. The Second Stage in the History of O.K. 149 12. The Folklore of O.K. 171 13. Later Stages in the History of O.K. 192 14. Successive Revisions in the Explanation of O.K 212 15. Sticking to the Facts: A Letter to Rowland Berthoff 245 THE F-WORD 16. An Obscenity Symbol 251 17. A Type of Ostentatious Taboo 270 18. Where Does That Word Come From? 277 A LIFE IN LANGUAGE 19. A Personal Journey through Linguistics 303 20. A Life Exhilarated by Language 318 Appendix: Bibliography of the Papers of Allen Walker Read 329