From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá déag de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > American journalist, essayist and (language link) author of _The American   
    > Language_.   
    > First edition 1919; 4th edition 1936 "corrected, enlarged, and rewritten".   
   Two   
    > supplements 1945 (on history of English in the USA) and 1948 (on   
   pronunciation,   
    > spelling, grammar, names, and slang). (Mencken died in 1956.)   
    > The copy I have is a 1977 paperback "One Volume Abridged Edition",   
   containing   
    > the 4th ed, the two supplements, with extensive annotations and new   
   material by   
    > Raven I.McDavid Jr. (dialectologist). Though abridged, still amounting to   
   777   
    > pages of text and 124 pages of indexes. Whew.   
      
   He wasn’t scared of work! Der deutsche Fleiß in der neuen Welt engepflanzt.   
      
    > Mencken was a cantankerous old bugger with strong and often very quotable   
    > opinions on almost everything.   
      
   I liked him a lot when I was younger (in my 20s), and then I read enough of it   
   to get a good insight into how downbeat about everything he was. No real   
   solutions, basically complaints and criticism.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)