American Speech

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Title:	American Speech
Online content:	Free online material via The Online Books Page
Tables of contents:	JSTOR (to 1999; full text also available; after 1929 may require subscription or payment), Duke University Press (since 2000; full text also available for subscription or payment)
More information:	Wikipedia article; Wikidata
First issue:	October 1925 (v. 1 no. 1)
First renewed issue:	December 1951 (v. 26 no. 4); see registered works database
First automatically renewed issue:	February 1964 (v. 39 no. 1)
First renewed contribution in:	February 1944 (v. 19 no. 1); see 1971 July-December

Renewed issues

This includes all active issue renewals prior to 1964, when automatic renewals began. It might not show all renewals from 1964 onward.

December 1951 (v. 26 no. 4)
February 1952 (v. 27 no. 1)
May 1952 (v. 27 no. 2)
October 1952 (v. 27 no. 3)
December 1952 (v. 27 no. 4)
February 1953 (v. 28 no. 1); Renewal record gives issue date as February 1952, an apparent typographical error.
May 1953 (v. 28 no. 2)
October 1953 (v. 28 no. 3)
December 1953 (v. 28 no. 4)
February 1954 (v. 29 no. 1)
May 1954 (v. 29 no. 2)
October 1954 (v. 29 no. 3)
December 1954 (v. 29 no. 4)
February 1955 (v. 30 no. 1)
May 1955 (v. 30 no. 2)
October 1955 (v. 30 no. 3)
December 1955 (v. 30 no. 4)
October 1956 (v. 31 no. 3)
December 1956 (v. 31 no. 4)
February 1958 (v. 33 no. 1)
May 1958 (v. 33 no. 2)
October 1958 (v. 33 no. 3)
December 1958 (v. 33 no. 4)
February 1959 (v. 34 no. 1)
October 1959 (v. 34 no. 3)
December 1959 (v. 34 no. 4)
February 1960 (v. 35 no. 1)
October 1960 (v. 35 no. 3)
December 1960 (v. 35 no. 4)
February 1961 (v. 36 no. 1)
May 1961 (v. 36 no. 2)
October 1961 (v. 36 no. 3)
December 1961 (v. 36 no. 4)
February 1962 (v. 37 no. 1)
May 1962 (v. 37 no. 2)
October 1962 (v. 37 no. 3)
December 1962 (v. 37 no. 4)
February 1963 (v. 38 no. 1)
May 1963 (v. 38 no. 2)
October 1963 (v. 38 no. 3)
December 1963 (v. 38 no. 4)

Renewed contributions

This includes all active contribution renewals prior to 1964, when automatic renewals began. It might not show all renewals from 1964 onward.

February 1944 (v. 19 no. 1): "War Words in England", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
April 1944 (v. 19 no. 2): "Vocabulary for Lakes, Deep Seas, and Inland Waters", by Otis Ferguson
October 1944 (v. 19 no. 3): "Designations for Colored Folk", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
December 1944 (v. 19 no. 4): "American Profanity", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
December 1945 (v. 20 no. 4): "The Founders Look Back", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
February 1946 (v. 21 no. 1): "The Current Suffixes", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
February 1946 (v. 21 no. 1): "Miscellany", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
April 1946 (v. 21 no. 2): "Bulletin on 'Hon'", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
December 1946 (v. 21 no. 4): "Verbs New and Old", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
October 1947 (v. 22 no. 3): "Etymological Notes", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
December 1947 (v. 22 no. 4): "Names for Americans", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
February 1948 (v. 23 no. 1): "Verbs New and Old", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
April 1948 (v. 23 no. 2): "American Street Names", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
October-December 1948 (v. 23 no. 3/4): "What the People of American Towns Call Themselves", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
February 1949 (v. 24 no. 1): "Some Opprobrious Nicknames", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
May 1961 (v. 36 no. 2): "Emersonian Virtue: A Definition" (Essay), by James A. Emanuel

Additional note

Contribution renewals are recorded beginning in the 1971 January-June CCE volume, but the earliest renewed contribution is noted in the 1971 July-December volume.

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