The English Language in America, Band 1Century Company, for the Modern language association of America, 1925 |
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... foreign nation ? The elements from which Webster would construct the new Amer- ican speech he found ready to his hand . The American people , as he viewed them , were a race of simple folk , neither rustics nor peasants on the one hand ...
... foreign nation ? The elements from which Webster would construct the new Amer- ican speech he found ready to his hand . The American people , as he viewed them , were a race of simple folk , neither rustics nor peasants on the one hand ...
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... local origins , but in many schools also by the presence of large numbers of children of foreign birth . Though the results accomplished fall short of the ideal , when one measures these results not by the THE MOTHER TONGUE 29.
... local origins , but in many schools also by the presence of large numbers of children of foreign birth . Though the results accomplished fall short of the ideal , when one measures these results not by the THE MOTHER TONGUE 29.
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... foreign element seems not to have affected American speech in any great degree , but the mingling of Scotch and Irish and of English- men from the north as well as the south of England has been of the greatest importance . The resultant ...
... foreign element seems not to have affected American speech in any great degree , but the mingling of Scotch and Irish and of English- men from the north as well as the south of England has been of the greatest importance . The resultant ...
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... foreign language . There are to be sure many foreign- ers in America who speak " broken English , " who speak with an " accent , " but the character of this kind of English is always unmis- takable . Henry James , in The American Scene ...
... foreign language . There are to be sure many foreign- ers in America who speak " broken English , " who speak with an " accent , " but the character of this kind of English is always unmis- takable . Henry James , in The American Scene ...
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... foreign languages - in any foreign language . But there is no sound of American speech which cannot be traced back to periods much earlier than those in which foreign contaminations have been possible . In vocabulary a few words from ...
... foreign languages - in any foreign language . But there is no sound of American speech which cannot be traced back to periods much earlier than those in which foreign contaminations have been possible . In vocabulary a few words from ...
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American English American speech appears attempts become British called century character characteristic colloquial common commonly Connecticut described dialect Dictionary distinctive earlier early England English Dictionary English language established evidence example existence expression fact familiar feeling final foreign French frequently given gives illustrated important Indian indicate interest kind known land later least less letters literary literature matter meaning merely native natural negro never Notes observation occurs origin passage passed perhaps persons phrase popular practice present probably pronounced pronunciation proper published question reason Records regions remarks respect river says schools seems sense shows similar slang social sometimes sound South Southern speak speech spelling standard style taken term thing thought tion town tradition true United various Virginia vocabulary Webster West whole word writing written York
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Seite 271 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Seite 306 - Liberty first and Union Afterwards," but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart — " Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and...
Seite 306 - Liberty first and Union afterward"; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other . sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE ! THE WRECK CHARLES DICKENS This very dramatic description is from "David Copperfield.
Seite 299 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light...
Seite 270 - I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman. Plutarch's Lives there was in which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book of DeFoe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr.
Seite 271 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 20 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Seite 20 - And it is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the masters thereof, being able to instruct youths, so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Seite 41 - English people; but there are fewer local peculiarities of form and articulation in our vast extent of territory than on the comparatively narrow soil of Great Britain. In spite of disturbing and distracting causes, English is more emphatically one in America than in its native land...
Seite 297 - I'm shaggy as a bear, wolfish about the head, active as a cougar, and can grin like a hyena, until the bark will curl off a gum log. There's a sprinkling of all sorts in me, from the lion down to the skunk; and before the war is over you'll pronounce me an entire zoological institute, or I miss a figure in my calculation. I promise to swallow Santa Anna without gagging, if you will only skewer back his ears, and grease his head a little.