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A Note on the Author

Elizabeth Little
is the author of
Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic.
A Harvard graduate with a degree in social studies, she has studied ancient Greek, classical Chinese, standard Mandarin, French, Italian, and Spanish and at any given time she has plans to study any number of other languages. A full-time writer and occasional editor, she lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her website is www.elizabeth-little.com.

By the Same Author

Biting the Wax Tadpole

Copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Little
Electronic edition published in March 2012

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Little, Elizabeth.

Trip of the tongue : cross-country travels in search of America's languages / Elizabeth Little.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-60819-829-0

1.  Language and culture—United States.   2.  Multilingualism—United States.   3.  Sociolinguistics—United States.   4.  Americanisms.   I.  Title.

P35.5.U6L57 2011

306.44'60973—dc23

2011039005