''American Speech'' is a quarterly

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of the

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, established in 1925 and currently published by

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. It focuses primarily on the

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used in the

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, but also publishes contributions on other varieties of English, outside influences on the language, and

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theory. The current editor is Thomas Purnell (

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). The ''

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's Lingua Franca'' considers it a "consistently reliable peer-reviewed source of information" and states that "though it is scholarly and research based, there’s a surprising amount of information that is intelligible to anyone, even without special training in linguistics."

History

The journal was established in 1925 by Kemp Malone,

Louise Pound Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 – June 28, 1958) was an American folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska. In 1955, Pound was the first woman elected president of the Modern Language Association, and in the same ...

, and Arthur G. Kennedy "to present information about English in America in a form appealing to general readers", and was inspired by H. L. Mencken. According to Mencken: It became the official journal of the American Dialect Society in 1970.

Among the New Words

In addition to research articles, ''American Speech'' publishes a section titled "Among the New Words", which reports on recent

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s and provides lexicographical documentation of their uses and origins. The section was introduced to the journal in 1941 by

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Abstracting and indexing

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databases

References

External links

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