American EnglishA.A. Knopf, 1921 - 375 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... perhaps it is in British literature , modern Brit- ish literature , rather than in the talk of fashionable British people , that we are to find the well of Eng- lish undefiled from which it would become us Amer- icans to quaff and of ...
... perhaps it is in British literature , modern Brit- ish literature , rather than in the talk of fashionable British people , that we are to find the well of Eng- lish undefiled from which it would become us Amer- icans to quaff and of ...
Pàgina 28
... perhaps sixty thousand expressions . Undoubtedly the im- mense majority of the entries in these books are obso- lete terms and words highly local ; but that is also true of my list of Americanisms . Of the whole 1900 I am quite sure ...
... perhaps sixty thousand expressions . Undoubtedly the im- mense majority of the entries in these books are obso- lete terms and words highly local ; but that is also true of my list of Americanisms . Of the whole 1900 I am quite sure ...
Pàgina 34
... perhaps , is the change that has taken place in the popular sounding of the name Chautauqua . As long as it was spelled with a final e , people persisted in saying Chautawk , notwithstanding that the local practice was always otherwise ...
... perhaps , is the change that has taken place in the popular sounding of the name Chautauqua . As long as it was spelled with a final e , people persisted in saying Chautawk , notwithstanding that the local practice was always otherwise ...
Pàgina 35
... perhaps on the whole the very best work of its kind published in either country ; but look at the prejudice ! The editors say : " In dealing with verbs such as level , rivet , bias , whose parts and derivatives are variously spelt , the ...
... perhaps on the whole the very best work of its kind published in either country ; but look at the prejudice ! The editors say : " In dealing with verbs such as level , rivet , bias , whose parts and derivatives are variously spelt , the ...
Pàgina 43
... perhaps worst of all , " really it must be her . " It is not only , however , in recent coinages and anomalous assigning of new meanings to old terms that the English have made rather reckless changes in the body of our speech where the ...
... perhaps worst of all , " really it must be her . " It is not only , however , in recent coinages and anomalous assigning of new meanings to old terms that the English have made rather reckless changes in the body of our speech where the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 70 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Pàgina 118 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Pàgina 24 - In the first place, it will hardly be denied in any quarter that the speech of the United States is quite unlike that of Great Britain, in the important particular that here we have no dialects.
Pàgina 53 - Let the English remove the beam from their own eye, before they attempt to pull the mote from ours; and before they laugh at our vulgar keow, geown, neow, let them discard their polite keind, and geuide ; a fault precisely similar in origin, and equally a perversion of genuine English pronunciation.
Pàgina 29 - a remarkable fact that the English spoken in America is not only very pure, but also is spoken with equal purity by all classes. . . . The language in every man's mouth...
Pàgina 52 - I do not mean, that so great a deviation has taken place, as to have rendered any considerable part of our language unintelligible to Englishmen; but merely, that so many corruptions have crept into our English...
Pàgina 49 - Let us then, for a moment, imagine the time to have arrived, when Americans shall no longer be able to understand the works of Milton, Pope, Swift, Addison, and other English authors, justly styled classic, without the aid of a translation into a language that is to be called, at some future day, the American tongue ! By such a change, it is true, our loss would not be so great in works purely scientific, as in those which are usually termed works of taste ; for the obvious reason, that the design...
Pàgina 50 - ... various living languages. Nor is this the only view in which a radical change of language would be an evil. To say nothing of the facilities afforded by a common language in the ordinary intercourse of business, it should not be forgotten, that our religion and our laws are studied in the language of the nation, from which we are descended...
Pàgina 222 - ... special bright ; and by no means first-rate ; and not at all tonguey (or disposed for conversation) ; and that however rowdy you may be by natur', it does use you up com-plete, and that's a fact ; and makes you quake considerable, and disposed toe damn the engine ! — All of which phrases, I beg to add, are pure Americanisms of the first water.
Pàgina 13 - Letters," the English of which is not much worse than that of ninety-nine out of every hundred of his college-bred compatriots, will very soon become aware to what degree the art of writing our language has declined among educated Americans.