made in america: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson by R.C. Davis | Posted on August 26, 2019 | Comments Off on made in america: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”