...vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain, for a very obvious reason, viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently...in accent or phraseology." — Works, Vol. IV. p. 281. We cannot say as much, however, in favcr of our literary dialect. The ripest scholars among us...

...remarkable expressions, and an attempt at introducing fine words, the lower order of Yankees have a Decided advantage over our English peasantry in the use of...are not so liable to local peculiarities either in aceent or phraseology." — Works, Vol. IV. p. 2S1. The London Quarterly Review, in noticing Silliman's...

...Witherspoon, President of Princeton College, born and educated in Scotland, made a similar remark in 1784. In an essay on the language he says : " The vulgar...in accent or phraseology." — Works, Vol. IV. p. 281. The London Quarterly Review, in noticing Silliman's Travels in England, quotes his remark on the...

...remarkable expressions, and an attempt at introducing fine words, the lower order of Yankees have a decided advantage over our English peasantry in the use of...America, wherein the Professor insists that it is " more correctly spoken at this time (1S05) by the mass of the Americans, than by the mass of the English...

...vulgar in Great Britain, for a very obvious reason, namely, that being much more unset- I i , tied, and moving frequently from place to place, they are...Quarterly Review, in noticing Silliman's Travels in Eng-~j land, quotes his remark on the use of the English language in England and in America, wherein...

...says : — " The vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain, for a ver}' obvious reason ; namely, that being much more unsettled,...in accent or phraseology." — Works, Vol. IV. p. 281. The '' London Quarterly Review," in noticing Silliman's '' Travels in England," quotes his remark...

...vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain, for a very obvious reason, viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently...local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one county and another in Britain, than there is between...

...the term "Americanism," was pleased to observe: "moving frequently from place to place, [Americans] are not so liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one county and another in Britain, than there is between...

...how this situation had come about. John Witherspoon claimed there was "a very obvious reason, viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently from place to place, they [Americans] are not liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology." Webster argued...

...The vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain for a very obvious reason, that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently...local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one county and another in Britain than there is between...