American Languag
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共 36 段- The same caveat lies against the work of the later makers of
- /The Characters of American/--The characters chiefly noted i
- e. "Certain compound terms for which the English have differ
- The Rev. Jeremy Belknap, long anticipating Elwyn, White and
- The young and tender adjectives had quite as hard a row to h
- [9] A number of such Indian words are preserved in the nomen
- Thus all hesitations disappeared, and there arose a national
- In two other familiar fields very considerable differences b
- /Pronunciation/--Noah Webster, as we saw in the last chapter
- If an English boy goes to a /public school/, it is not a sig
- That an Englishman always calls out "/I/ say!", and not simp
- White, between 1867 and 1870, launched various attacks upon
- A few weeks in London or a month's study of the London [Pg13
- But these tendencies, or at least the more extravagant of th
- The immigrant in the midst of a large native population, of
- Thus it is unsafe, here as elsewhere, to generalize too faci
- [67] It has even got into the Continental languages. In Octo
- So far as I can discover, there has been but one attempt by
- Some of the verbs of the vulgate show the end products of la
- These inflections, as we shall see, are often disregarded in
- In the matter of the reflexive pronouns the American vulgate
- At the start two streams of influence upon American pronunci
- Further attempts in the same direction are to be seen in the
- Nevertheless, American spelling makes constant gains across
- [25] Style Book, a Compilation of Rules Governing Executive,
- In part, as I say, these changes in surname are enforced by
- The influence of Indian names upon American nomenclature is
- [9] S. Grant Oliphant, in the /Baltimore Sun/, Dec. 2, 1906.
- What slang actually consists of doesn't depend, in truth, up
- "This American language," says a recent observer, "seems to
- Lighthall, W. D.: Canadian English, /Week/ (Toronto), Aug. 1
- blow-out, 81.
- go, 195, 317.
- papoose, 41, 42.
- Tombigbee, 30.
- Page 108, footnote 9: the original phrase "/Cf./ Don't Shy a