The biggest pre-publication sales in the history of American publishing were recently achieved by a new. unabridged reprint of . . . “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: 10.000 copies. Where is “the best American” spoken? H. C. Mencken’s answer in “The American Language: Supplement II,” recently issued: As for me, I wobble between Baltimore and Benton Harbour, inclining toward the former because it is my native place and fixed my own speech-habits, and toward the latter because it is in the same Sprachgebiet as Owosso, Mich., the birthplace of Thomas ?2. Dewey, whose General American is the clearest and best that I have ever heard from the lips, of an American rhetorician.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25555, 24 July 1948, Page 3
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