Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... seen that the present edition , while it does not wholly reject words of English origin , claims to be more strictly American than the first . At the same time , the first edition will still have a value of its own , as showing more ...
... seen that the present edition , while it does not wholly reject words of English origin , claims to be more strictly American than the first . At the same time , the first edition will still have a value of its own , as showing more ...
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... seen no books except Major Jones's " Courtship " and " Sketches , " " Georgia Scenes , " and " Sherwood's Gazetteer of Georgia , " in which , however , a considerable number of local words are to be found . The newspapers have afforded ...
... seen no books except Major Jones's " Courtship " and " Sketches , " " Georgia Scenes , " and " Sherwood's Gazetteer of Georgia , " in which , however , a considerable number of local words are to be found . The newspapers have afforded ...
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... seen that it is very difficult to draw the line between what should be admitted and what excluded ; and I have thought it better to err on the side of copiousness , than by too rigid a system of selection to run into the opposite ...
... seen that it is very difficult to draw the line between what should be admitted and what excluded ; and I have thought it better to err on the side of copiousness , than by too rigid a system of selection to run into the opposite ...
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... seen , and choose to be among the missing . - S . Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - New York Herald . ✓ AMONG ...
... seen , and choose to be among the missing . - S . Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - New York Herald . ✓ AMONG ...
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... seen afterwards , showed that we had steered a bee - line for the brig . - Kane , Arctic Explorations , Vol . I. p . 198 . Sinners , you are making a bee - line from time to eternity ; and what you have once passed over you will never ...
... seen afterwards , showed that we had steered a bee - line for the brig . - Kane , Arctic Explorations , Vol . I. p . 198 . Sinners , you are making a bee - line from time to eternity ; and what you have once passed over you will never ...
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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