Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... words and phrases peculiar to the West . To Mr. JOHN GIL- ✓MARY SHEA for New York words ; to Dr. A. L. ELWYN of ... word now used only in some out - of - the - way locality in England , but quite general here , may be regarded as a ...
... words and phrases peculiar to the West . To Mr. JOHN GIL- ✓MARY SHEA for New York words ; to Dr. A. L. ELWYN of ... word now used only in some out - of - the - way locality in England , but quite general here , may be regarded as a ...
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... word is used in · England , it is likely that many of these should properly have been omitted . Many words common to the colloquial language both of England and America have been allowed to remain because they have not yet been hon ...
... word is used in · England , it is likely that many of these should properly have been omitted . Many words common to the colloquial language both of England and America have been allowed to remain because they have not yet been hon ...
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... words . For these perversions I make no other defence or apology but that they occur in all countries and in every language . Having found the case to be as stated , I had next to decide between a vocabulary of words of purely American ...
... words . For these perversions I make no other defence or apology but that they occur in all countries and in every language . Having found the case to be as stated , I had next to decide between a vocabulary of words of purely American ...
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... words which are not noticed by lexicogra- phers , yet are so much employed as to deserve a place in a glossary . Such is the plan which I have thought most advisable to adopt , and which I hope will give satisfaction . In carrying out ...
... words which are not noticed by lexicogra- phers , yet are so much employed as to deserve a place in a glossary . Such is the plan which I have thought most advisable to adopt , and which I hope will give satisfaction . In carrying out ...
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... words and figures of speech , has unintentionally . made us better acquainted with the colloquial language of the West ... word or phrase peculiarly American , or one which was employed in a sense differing from the use of the same in ...
... words and figures of speech , has unintentionally . made us better acquainted with the colloquial language of the West ... word or phrase peculiarly American , or one which was employed in a sense differing from the use of the same in ...
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