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A Glossary of Words and Phrases

Author: John Russell Bartlett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780331007473

Excerpt from A Glossary of Words and Phrases: Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States Having found the case to be as stated, I had next to decide between a vocabulary of words of purely American origin, or one in which should be embraced all those words usual] y called provincial or vulgar - all the words, whatever be their origin, which are used in familiar conversation, and but seldom em ployed in composition - all the perversions of language, and abuses of words into which people, in certain sections of the country, have fallen, and some of those remarkable and ludi croas forms of speech which have been adopted in the Western States. The latter plan seemed the most satisfactory, and this I determined to adopt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland (Classic Reprint)

Author: William Dickinson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780428345617

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Excerpt from A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland The English language has no equivalent to the vowel sound in the way the word brust (burst) is pronounced. It is not the u, the 3, nor the i, but a kind of compromise between the e and the i. The word run is in a similar predicament, it being frequently pronounced in a half-way sound between win and ran, and partly approaching to ren, but not strictly coinciding with the sound of any of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dictionary of Americanisms

Author: John Russell Bartlett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-05

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780365125358

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Excerpt from Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar the United States The first edition of this Dictionary was published in New York in 1848. It met with a quick sale, and soon passed out of print. Aware of its many imperfections, I began my preparations for a new edition before it had fully left the press. From that time to the day the last sheets of this edition left my hands for the printer, now ten years, I have been more or less occupied in its preparation. Nearly three years of this period I spent in the interior of the country, in the service of the 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 experience enabled me to collect the singular words occurring in prairie and frontier life as well as those com mon to Texas, New Mexico, and California. Most of these have come from the Spanish, and are now fairly engrafted on our language. The other alterations and improvements made in this edition, consist in the addition of a very large number Of words and phrases peculiar to the United States; so that it now contains probably twice as many as the first edition. The examples or illustrations from authors, showing the use of words, have also been greatly multiplied. This seemed desirable, as exam ples convey a far more correct idea of their meaning and use than a simple definition. The. Histories of words and their definitions have also been corrected and improved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dictionary of Hard Words

Author: Robert Morris Pierce

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (Classic Reprint)

Author: B. Lowsley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780267619054

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Excerpt from A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases Many words used in Berkshire have been noted in some of these Glossaries with - as might be looked for - differences in pronunciation and even signification. All as now submitted I have heard spoken in mid-berkshire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Select Glossary

Author: Richard Chenevix Trench

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780365285489

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Excerpt from Select Glossary: Of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present And as I owe nothing to these ms. Collections, in valuable help as I have no doubt they would have rendered, so next to nothing in the way of citation to any other source. This value I may claim for my book, that it is with the very most triﬂing exceptions an entirely independent and original collection of passages illustrative of the history of our language. Of my citations, I believe about a thousand in all, I may owe some twenty at the most to existing Diction aries or Glossaries, to Nares, or Johnson, or Todd, or Richardson. In perhaps some twenty cases more I have lighted upon and selected a passage by one of them selected before, and have not thought it desira ble, or have not found it possible, to choose some other in its room. These excepted, the collection is entire ly independent of all those which have previously been made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dictionary of Americanisms

Author: John Russel Bartlett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 9781391301242

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Excerpt from Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phase Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States The second edition Of this Dictionary was published in Boston in 1859, and a third the following year. The former was greatly enlarged from the first edition, the latter was a reprint of the second edition without alterations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Glossary of Dialect and Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Drummond Robertson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780282449032

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Excerpt from A Glossary of Dialect and Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester I have also found the Glossaries of my fellow-workers in adjoining fields of great assistance in determining the range of words, a matter which I consider to be of very great importance. And in this connection I would say that I have found myself obliged to admit a good many words - in self-defence, so to say - which I should personally have preferred to omit, on the ground that they are words in common usage all over the country, although perhaps not sufficiently polite to find a place in the dictionary. Had I altogether omitted them, it might in the future be supposed that they were not used in this County, and thus a false idea of their range would necessarily arise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Wiltshire (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Yonge Akerman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780656402526

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Excerpt from A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Wiltshire Bearing this bitter sarcasm in lively remem brance, I trust I have not gone too far for derivations m the list of provincial words which follows, and that my anxiety to prove them Will not provoke the censure or the ridicule of the critic and the scholar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.