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Some of these, as the constant use of 'Mistress' for 'Mrs., are interesting as archaisms, or words in use in the early days of the Colony, and which have never died out of use. Others are Yankeeisms or vulgarisms; others, again, such as the expression 'turning cuffums, i.e. summersets, from cuffums, a species of fish, seem to be of local origin."
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