Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... towns and villages were chiefly named after the towns in England from which the early colonists emigrated . In the State of New York there is a strange discrepancy in the names of places . Before the Revolution the people seemed to ...
... towns and villages were chiefly named after the towns in England from which the early colonists emigrated . In the State of New York there is a strange discrepancy in the names of places . Before the Revolution the people seemed to ...
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... towns named after nearly every country in Europe , as Norway , Sweden , Denmark ( with a Copenhagen adjoining ) , Russia , Greece , Italy , Sardinia , Holland , Wales , as well as after their principal cities . There is a town of Mexico ...
... towns named after nearly every country in Europe , as Norway , Sweden , Denmark ( with a Copenhagen adjoining ) , Russia , Greece , Italy , Sardinia , Holland , Wales , as well as after their principal cities . There is a town of Mexico ...
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... towns , the formation of nouns from them to denote the native or citizen of such State or town is sometimes difficult and even impossible . Thus New Yorker , Vermonter , Rhode Islander , will do well enough ; and so will Virginian ...
... towns , the formation of nouns from them to denote the native or citizen of such State or town is sometimes difficult and even impossible . Thus New Yorker , Vermonter , Rhode Islander , will do well enough ; and so will Virginian ...
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... towns in Massachusetts , there exist some glaring errors in the vulgar speech . There are peculiarities also to be observed in the lite- rary language of the Bostonians . The great extent to which the scholars of New England have ...
... towns in Massachusetts , there exist some glaring errors in the vulgar speech . There are peculiarities also to be observed in the lite- rary language of the Bostonians . The great extent to which the scholars of New England have ...
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... town , or a summer season at a watering- place , assimilates more nearly to preparing a vessel for a voyage around the world than any other analogous undertaking . - N . Y. Commercial Advertiser . The Niagara , New Orleans , and ...
... town , or a summer season at a watering- place , assimilates more nearly to preparing a vessel for a voyage around the world than any other analogous undertaking . - N . Y. Commercial Advertiser . The Niagara , New Orleans , and ...
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