22) Guide to the Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition
...is, the sound represented by the schwa varies, depending on the quality of the particular vowel that is unstressed and often on the sounds surrounding it. Thus, although...

23) Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
...by a short stressed vowel: giv, hav, liv. Drop the final silent e in the common words are, gone and were: ar, gon, wer. Drop the final silent e in the unstressed...

24) Variation and Change in Our Living Language. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
...reductions, like za (from pizza) and rents (from parents) have an even more startling, in-your-face quality. Their effect derives from the fact that they involve...

25) Variation and Change in Our Living Language. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
...slang reductions, like za (from pizza) and rents (from parents) have an even more startling, in-your-face quality. Their effect derives from the fact that they involve...

26) Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 1. English as a World Language. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
...language, he argues (against the old tradition in philology), is one of the chief sources of its vigor. He says: Where German has, for instance, alle diejenigen wilden...

27) Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts. Edward Sapir. 1921. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
...of a measure of concreteness): normally expressed by affixing non-radical elements to radical elements, but generally at a greater remove from these than is the case...