Glossary of Supposed AmericanismsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - 122 pàgines |
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Pàgina iii
... mode of employing them at all absurd . It is , indeed , remarkable that we have made no violent or outrageous alterations . It is another testimony to the almost inflexible tenacity with which people hold to their language ( iii ) and ...
... mode of employing them at all absurd . It is , indeed , remarkable that we have made no violent or outrageous alterations . It is another testimony to the almost inflexible tenacity with which people hold to their language ( iii ) and ...
Pàgina iv
... mode of speak- ing of their pilgrim parents ; while in the land of their fathers that has sunk into the obsolete ... modes of speaking which distin- guish her from her sister States , and as the true descendants of Anglo - Saxon ...
... mode of speak- ing of their pilgrim parents ; while in the land of their fathers that has sunk into the obsolete ... modes of speaking which distin- guish her from her sister States , and as the true descendants of Anglo - Saxon ...
Pàgina v
... mode of his county , Staffordshire , or of that part where he was born . In the Middle States , or the oldest parts of them , where Dutch and Swedes preceded the English , though we may de- 1 * tect some distinguishing characteristic ...
... mode of his county , Staffordshire , or of that part where he was born . In the Middle States , or the oldest parts of them , where Dutch and Swedes preceded the English , though we may de- 1 * tect some distinguishing characteristic ...
Pàgina vii
... modes of expression . With the rapid growth of population , the increase of wealth , and improvement in all the arts of civilized life , all that is passing away ; and the West , from the immigration of a more modern class , from its ...
... modes of expression . With the rapid growth of population , the increase of wealth , and improvement in all the arts of civilized life , all that is passing away ; and the West , from the immigration of a more modern class , from its ...
Pàgina viii
... mode of speaking , which may , however , according to the above gentleman , be considered as subsided particles from some one of those divisions . But between the North and West , the difference of language is so thorough , that a ...
... mode of speaking , which may , however , according to the above gentleman , be considered as subsided particles from some one of those divisions . But between the North and West , the difference of language is so thorough , that a ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
according appears applied authority ball beat Beaumont believe blow boys Britton Brock Brockett brought called Chaucer Class comes common expression corruption Craven custom defines derives Dialect doubt Dutch employed English Essex fall farmers feel fellow Fletcher's Forby frequent German given gives Grose Hallamshire Glossary hear heard this word Holloway horse hour houses implies Jennings kind known land language Latin live look manner meaning meant mentioned mind mode mouth never heard Norfolk North of England old word once origin peculiar Pennsylvania perhaps person phrase piece played preserve probably pronounced pronunciation remember Saxon seems sense settle Shakspeare side sometimes sort South speaking spell Suffolk supposed Sussex Tale term thing thou tion Tod's Johnson uncommon universal usual verb vulgar West whence Yankee
Passatges populars
Pàgina 74 - And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Pàgina 68 - I shall mar your market, old Joan. Trash. Mar my market, thou too-proud pedlar! do thy worst, I defy thee, I, and thy stable of hobby-horses. I pay for my ground, as well as thou dost: an...
Pàgina 68 - Fair's pestilence dead methinks ; people come not abroad to-day, whatever the matter is. Do you hear, sister Trash, lady of the basket? sit farther with your gingerbread progeny there, and hinder not the prospect of my shop, or I'll have it proclaimed in the Fair, what stuff they are made on.
Pàgina 80 - A rural game, played by making holes in the ground in the angles and sides of a square, and placing stones or other things upon them, according to certain rules. These figures are called nine men's morris, or...
Pàgina 49 - Madam, he sets us light, that serv'd in court, In place of credit, in his father's days : If we but enter presence of his grace, Our payment is a frown, a scoff, a frump...
Pàgina vi - ... ascertain, and in this century the terms have been confined almost exclusively to New England. This is the more surprising because there is proof that the New Englanders who emigrated to the Muskingum and the Ohio, in 1788, took the terms along with them.4 It was remarked by AL Elwyn in 1859, that — " The people of Ohio, who are largely derived from Yankees, are not remarkable for possessing their peculiarities. The great number of modern English and other foreigners who have mingled with the...
Pàgina 73 - A portion of a dish left by the guests, that the host may not feel himself reproached for insufficient preparation.
Pàgina 86 - Yes, sir, for every part has his hour: we wake at six and look about us, that's eye-hour; at seven we should pray, that's knee-hour; at eight walk, that's leg-hour; at nine gather flowers and pluck a rose,' that's nose-hour; at ten we drink, that's mouth-hour; at eleven lay about us for victuals, that's hand-hour; at twelve go to dinner, that's belly-hour.
Pàgina 102 - Norweg. sleip, adj., slippery, sleip, sb., a smooth piece of timber for dragging anything over, esp. • used of pieces of timber used for the foundation of a road, the same as North. E. slab, ' the outside plank of a piece of timber, when sawn into boards,
Pàgina 66 - French times damnees," which flew in a train from one sea to the other, and were looked upon as ominous by the inhabitants. It is held extremely portentous, says Grose, to kill a cricket, a ladybug, a swallow, martin, robin redbreast, or wren ; perhaps from the idea of its being a breach of hospitality ; all these birds and insects alike taking refuge in houses.