The greatest leaders not only make a difference in their own times

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Splendiferous Speech: How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English Weather The greatest leaders not onlyWhat does it mean to talk like an American? According to John Russell Bartletts 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, it means indulging in outlandish slangsplendiferous, scrumptious, higgeldy piggedlyand free and easy word creationdemoralize, lengthy, gerrymander. American English is more than just vocabulary, though. Its a picturesque way of talking that includes expressions like go the whole hog, and the wild boasts of frontiersman Davy Crockett, who