Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... English of the school - room . " 1 Philologists and other scholars , when a term is wanted for some new invention , some new product in the arts , in machinery or manufactures , usually form one from the Greek or Latin . A word thus ...
... English of the school - room . " 1 Philologists and other scholars , when a term is wanted for some new invention , some new product in the arts , in machinery or manufactures , usually form one from the Greek or Latin . A word thus ...
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... English words , obsolete , or nearly so , in England , but retained in use in this country . 2. English words used in a different sense from what they are in England . These include many names of natural objects differently applied . 3 ...
... English words , obsolete , or nearly so , in England , but retained in use in this country . 2. English words used in a different sense from what they are in England . These include many names of natural objects differently applied . 3 ...
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... English language which aims at completeness . Were such a work as the new English Dictionary projected by the Philological Society of London already in exist- ence , the insertion of a large number of words of this class could have been ...
... English language which aims at completeness . Were such a work as the new English Dictionary projected by the Philological Society of London already in exist- ence , the insertion of a large number of words of this class could have been ...
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... English glossaries has enabled me to select what appeared most desirable to embrace , and what to avoid , in an American book of a similar kind . Cant words , except such as are in general use , the terms used at gaming - houses ...
... English glossaries has enabled me to select what appeared most desirable to embrace , and what to avoid , in an American book of a similar kind . Cant words , except such as are in general use , the terms used at gaming - houses ...
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... English language have shown that it is of purely Gothic origin , descended through languages of which sufficient remains to make grammatical as well as etymological comparisons practicable . It is true that some have regarded it as a ...
... English language have shown that it is of purely Gothic origin , descended through languages of which sufficient remains to make grammatical as well as etymological comparisons practicable . It is true that some have regarded it as a ...
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