ISBN: 123634930X

[EAN: 9781236349309], Neubuch, GEORGE RIPLEY,EDUCATION AND REFERENCE, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers ca… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781236349309], Neubuch, GEORGE RIPLEY,EDUCATION AND REFERENCE, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: . . . parties. Ticket is used by the Americans in many ways unknown to the English. Politically it means a list of candidate ai an election. When an American engages a passage on a railroad, he purchases a ticket; the Englishman is booked at the office. The American purchases a through ticket or a way ticket; the Englishman is booked for a portion or the whole distance of his intended journey. Timber, in the sense of forest or grove; as the house stands at the edge of the timber. Transient, in such phrases as a transient person. meaning a person staving at a place for a short time, a stranger, a traveller. Is not used In that sense in England. Venison, deer meat; in England, wild meat generally. Waggon or wagon, according to the usual American spelling, is frequently used in the United States as a verb; thus, The goods were wagoned across the mountains. Will is generally used by the natives of the southern, westem, and middle states, in the first person, instead of shall, when they merely wish to express an execration. Woods Is the common American name for what the English term a wood. Vocabularies of Americanisms have been publisbed by John Pickering (Boston, 1816), John Russell Bartlett (New York, 1848, new ed. , revised, 1859), and Prof, Scheie de Vere (New York, 1872). Such multitudes of slant words are made every year in America and circulated by careless or flippant writers, that if they were all collected they might before long equal in number the 60, 000 provincialisms of England. Fortunately they are generally used with a knowledge of their vulgarity, and many of them are forgotten almost as easily as they are coined. AMERICAN RIVER, in N. central California, is formed by the union o. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 123634930X

[EAN: 9781236349309], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781236349309], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: . parties. Ticket is used by the Americans in many ways unknown to the English. Politically it means a list of candidate ai an election. When an American engages a passage on a railroad, he purchases a ticket; the Englishman is booked at the office. The American purchases a "through ticket" or a "way ticket;" the Englishman is booked for a portion or the whole distance of his intended journey. Timber, in the sense of forest or grove; as "the house stands at the edge of the timber." Transient, in such phrases as a "transient person." meaning a person staving at a place for a short time, a stranger, a traveller. Is not used In that sense in England. Venison, deer meat; in England, wild meat generally. Waggon or wagon, according to the usual American spelling, is frequently used in the United States as a verb; thus, "The goods were wagoned across the mountains." Will is generally used by the natives of the southern, westem, and middle states, in the first person, instead of shall, when they merely wish to express an execration. Woods Is the common American name for what the English term "a wood." Vocabularies of Americanisms have been publisbed by John Pickering (Boston, 1816), John Russell Bartlett (New York, 1848, new ed., revised, 1859), and Prof, Scheie de Vere (New York, 1872). Such multitudes of slant? words are made every year in America and circulated by careless or flippant writers, that if they were all collected they might before long equal in number the 60,000 provincialisms of England. Fortunately they are generally used with a knowledge of their vulgarity, and many of them are forgotten almost as easily as they are coined. AMERICAN RIVER, in N. central California, is formed by the union o.<