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A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States John Russell Bartlett. OF AMERICANISMS : A GLOSSARY OF WORDS AND PHRASES USUALLY REGARDED AS PECULIAR TO THE UNITED STATES . BY JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT ...
A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States John Russell Bartlett. OF AMERICANISMS : A GLOSSARY OF WORDS AND PHRASES USUALLY REGARDED AS PECULIAR TO THE UNITED STATES . BY JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT ...
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... United States as Commissioner on the Mexican Boundary ; but , even there , I failed not to note the peculiarities of the familiar language of the frontier , and carefully recorded the words and phrases I met with for future use . This ...
... United States as Commissioner on the Mexican Boundary ; but , even there , I failed not to note the peculiarities of the familiar language of the frontier , and carefully recorded the words and phrases I met with for future use . This ...
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A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States John Russell Bartlett. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . IN venturing to lay before the public a Vocabulary of the col- loquial language of the United States ...
A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States John Russell Bartlett. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . IN venturing to lay before the public a Vocabulary of the col- loquial language of the United States ...
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... united the greater part of the population , or the families of the middle stations of life : it may , therefore , be well expected that much of the peculiarity of dialect prevalent in Anglo - Saxon times is preserved even to the present ...
... united the greater part of the population , or the families of the middle stations of life : it may , therefore , be well expected that much of the peculiarity of dialect prevalent in Anglo - Saxon times is preserved even to the present ...
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... United States has been honored with the name of Shakspeare . If we were to classify all the names of places in the State of New York , we should be puzzled to find a place for the names of Big Indian , Cow Neck , Half Way , Half Moon ...
... United States has been honored with the name of Shakspeare . If we were to classify all the names of places in the State of New York , we should be puzzled to find a place for the names of Big Indian , Cow Neck , Half Way , Half Moon ...
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