Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... Persons without education , and who are consequently not familiar with the language of literature , employ almost ... person will take the trouble to examine the early dictionaries of the English language , or the dictionaries of ...
... Persons without education , and who are consequently not familiar with the language of literature , employ almost ... person will take the trouble to examine the early dictionaries of the English language , or the dictionaries of ...
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... person who is observant in these matters . Residents of the city of New York are perhaps less marked in their pronunciation and use of words than the residents of any other city or State , the reason of which is obvious . The population ...
... person who is observant in these matters . Residents of the city of New York are perhaps less marked in their pronunciation and use of words than the residents of any other city or State , the reason of which is obvious . The population ...
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... persons who use it are not aware that it is really the person or thing which is qualified in these cases , and not the action or state of being . Among the American peculiarities of style one of the most remarkable is a tendency to ...
... persons who use it are not aware that it is really the person or thing which is qualified in these cases , and not the action or state of being . Among the American peculiarities of style one of the most remarkable is a tendency to ...
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... person inquires if you are at home , the servant is directed to say , No , if you don't want to be seen , and choose to be among the missing . - S . Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington ...
... person inquires if you are at home , the servant is directed to say , No , if you don't want to be seen , and choose to be among the missing . - S . Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington ...
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... person who is licensed to preach ; they would say , such a one is approbated , that is , licensed to preach . It is also com- mon in New England to say of a person who is licensed by the county courts to sell spirituous liquors , or to ...
... person who is licensed to preach ; they would say , such a one is approbated , that is , licensed to preach . It is also com- mon in New England to say of a person who is licensed by the county courts to sell spirituous liquors , or to ...
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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