Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... English language which aims at completeness . Were such a work as the new English Dictionary projected by the Philological Society of London already in existence , the insertion of a large number of words of this class could have been ...
... English language which aims at completeness . Were such a work as the new English Dictionary projected by the Philological Society of London already in existence , the insertion of a large number of words of this class could have been ...
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... English words , obsolete , or nearly so , in England , but retained in use in this country . 2. English words used in a different sense from what they are in England . These include many names of natural objects differently applied . 3 ...
... English words , obsolete , or nearly so , in England , but retained in use in this country . 2. English words used in a different sense from what they are in England . These include many names of natural objects differently applied . 3 ...
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... English language , have shown that it is of purely Gothic origin , descended through languages , of which sufficient re- mains to make grammatical as well as etymological comparisons practicable . It is true that some have regarded it ...
... English language , have shown that it is of purely Gothic origin , descended through languages , of which sufficient re- mains to make grammatical as well as etymological comparisons practicable . It is true that some have regarded it ...
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... English language , or the dictionaries of which English forms a part , he will be surprised at the large number of words which have become so com- pletely obsolete as to be undeserving a place in modern compilations . Even the English ...
... English language , or the dictionaries of which English forms a part , he will be surprised at the large number of words which have become so com- pletely obsolete as to be undeserving a place in modern compilations . Even the English ...
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... English dialects afford important materials for elucidating that portion of English history which relates to the early colonization of Great Britain ; for , if history were silent on the sub- ject , a philological test applied to the ...
... English dialects afford important materials for elucidating that portion of English history which relates to the early colonization of Great Britain ; for , if history were silent on the sub- ject , a philological test applied to the ...
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Abenaki ain't Allspice American Balt banks boys called colloquial common corruption Democratic denote dialects dictionaries dollars Dow's Sermons Dutch Eastford English English language expression fish give grass ground heard horse Human Nature Indian corn Jones's Courtship Kentucky land language Letter Loco-foco maize Margaret means Menhaden Mexico Mississippi Mountains N. Y. Spirit N. Y. Tribune negro never North Northern one's origin party peculiar person phrase Pickering plant political popular name prairies Pron pronunciation Providence Journal provincial in England Rhode Island river Sam Slick says sense Slick in England sometimes South South Carolina Southern Sketches Spanish real species Squatter tell term applied Texas thing town tree United Virginia vulgar Washington Webster West West Indies Western Whig Widow Bedott Papers wood Worcester word writers Yankee York York Tribune