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A loud voice is both disagreeable and vulgar. It is better to err by the use of too low than too loud a tone. Remember that all "slang" is vulgar. It has become of late unfortunately prevalent, and we have known even ladies pride themselves on the saucy chique with which they adopt certain Americanisms, and other cant phrases of the day. Such habits cannot be too severely reprehended.
"You must be more careful with your speech, Harietta. When you get to England you must not say 'along with it' after the pains I have taken with your grammar, too! You can use Americanisms if they are apt, and even a literal translation of another language but bad grammar common phrases pah! that is to give the show away!" Harietta reddened her vanity disliked criticism.
Two years later, in 1879, when he made the journey across the plains, he had many opportunities to record Americanisms far more emphatic than the harmless phrase quoted here, which can hardly be called an Americanism.
It suggests a wood-chopping period. Is it ah in general use?" he inquired. "Of course it isn't, Henshaw!" said his wife. "You've been a great while out of the country, my dear," suggested Mr. Erwin. "Not so long as not to know that your Americanisms are enough to make one wish we had held our tongues ever since we were discovered, or had never been discovered at all.
Perhaps we may go to Milan with you, or to Naples, there's a conservatory there, too; and we can pull up stakes as easily as not. Well!" said Mrs. Erwin, interrupting herself, "I'm glad Henshaw wasn't by to hear that speech. He'd have had it down among his Americanisms instantly.
The peculiar expressions which go under the name of Americanisms are never heard in good society, and those disagreeable habits connected with tobacco are equally unknown. I thought that the gentlemen were remarkably free from mannerisms of any kind. I have frequently heard Americans speak of the descriptions given by Dickens and Mrs.
D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. pp. 503. $3.00. Ancient Mineralogy; or an Inquiry respecting Mineral Substances mentioned by the Ancients, with Occasional Remarks on the Uses to which they were applied. By N.F. Moore, LL.D. Second Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 18mo. pp. 250. 60 cts. The Vagabond. By Adam Badean. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 368. $1.00. Dictionary of Americanisms.
Fitzroy evidently understood, as he had taken his seat and the engine was humming. "Americanisms are most fascinating," she vowed. "I wish you would use more of them, Cynthia. I love them." Cynthia was slightly ruffled, though if pressed for a reason she could hardly have given one. "Slang is useful occasionally, but I am trying to cure myself of the habit," she said tartly.
When I am reproved by English acquaintances for the "Americanisms" which disfigure my speech and proclaim my nationality, I cannot well defend myself by asserting that I read the same Bible as they do, for maybe, after all, I don't.
Sterling gives an extract from a poem by a Venetian, Marco Boschini, which was published not long after Velasquez's journey to Italy, in which part of a conversation is given between him and Salvator Rosa, who asked him what he thought of Raphael. You will like to see it, if you have not Sterling by you. Dictionary of Americanisms.
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