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This has tended to make the common language of talk more bookish, and has thus reacted unfavorably on our literature, giving it sometimes the air of being composed in a dead tongue rather than written from a living one. It gladdens us, we confess, to see how goodly a volume of Americanisms Mr. Bartlett has been enabled to gather, for it shows that our language is alive.
The Duke laughed; he always laughed at Americanisms. "I guess so," said the Duke, trying ineffectually to mimic his friend. Then he went on in his natural voice, "I have an idea." "Keep it," said Barker; "they are scarce." "No; seriously. If we must leave them alone, why why should we not go down and look at the yacht?" "Not bad at all. As you say, we might go round and see how she looks.
"Fellow" and "companion" have now exchanged meanings, though we still speak of a bedfellow and the fellow to a glove. This "Americanism" is really an old English phrase, as many more so-called Americanisms also are. Idols. Our forefathers had a rooted idea that Jews and Mohammedans were idolaters. Their very word for idols, "Mawmetis," was a corruption of the name of Mahomet. "Urbs Coelestis!
He's really quite superhuman, in that, equal to a woman. You can talk Americanisms with him. If we sat here staring at each other till four o'clock, he must go to his hotel before he comes here; and I say four at the earliest; and it's much more likely to be five or six, or perhaps evening, I should die!" Mr. Erwin's rowing was the wonder of all Venice.
"My dear," she cried with enthusiasm, "I am charmed I am delighted with Iris." "I am glad," said Arnold mendaciously. "I am delighted with her in every way. She is more and better than I could have expected far more. A few Americanisms, of course " "No doubt," said Arnold. "When I saw her I thought they rather resembled Anglicisms. But you have had opportunities of judging.
One may be pardoned a free translation, since, though he spoke in excellent Spanish, he did not twist his sentences like a native, and he was not averse to making use of certain idioms quite as striking in their way as our own Americanisms. Don Andres rolled a cigarette and smoked it thoughtfully. "You were wise.
At a desk by the window sat Carmichael, deep in a volume of Dumas. No one ever hurried here; no one ever had palpitation of the heart over business. The clerk lifted his head. "Mr. Carmichael?" said Grumbach in English. The clerk indicated with his pen toward the individual by the window. Carmichael read on. Grumbach had assimilated some Americanisms.
Preliminary remarks on re-entering the States Americanisms A little slang Liquoring up Eccentricities in dress A 'cute chap down east Conversation on eating A Kentucky gal Lake Champlain Delaval's A noisy serenade Albany Beauties of the Hudson The Empire City. It has been truly observed that a reliable book on the United States yet remains to be written.
He himself was a quiet, scholarly man, and it was there in his shop, when his many friends left him leisure for work, that he arranged the greater part of his Dictionary of Americanisms, by which his name is remembered far better than by his historical records, remembered when the fact that he was Secretary of State in Rhode Island is quite forgotten if it was ever widely known.
Brock's miserable affectation of the English drawl soon gave way to sharp, emphatic Americanisms. It was after eight o'clock and the train was well under way. The street lamps were getting fewer and fewer, and the soft, fresh air of the suburbs was rushing through the window. "But, hang it all, I can't sit up all night!" growled Brock in exasperated finality.
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