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THE MAKING OF MODERN ENGLISH.
TRACING AMERICAN INFLUENCE.
ENGLISH PROFESSOR'S RESEARCH INTO FACTS OF
Sir William Craigie, author of the following article, is one of the editora the Oxford Dic- tionary, and has been pursuing his studies in' the United States,
PHILOLOGY.
Savannah, which has long been naturalized, the Amoricans display little taste in preferring it."?
English Opposition.
The process of hesitant adoption is well illustrated in the case of "lengthy, which is as old as the diary of John Adanis in 1760. The British Critic of 1793 objected to it; Southey and goott introduced it with the remarks to borrow Transatlantic torm and it nsour American friends would any Bentham, however, used it without apology in 1810, and so did Dickens in 1837. Reliable excited much opposition among English purists, and their resistance was fairly successful for about half a century.
doubt been branded in England," but both noun and verb acquired new significance in the vast cattle- ranges of the west about 1830, while the use of the noun in the sense of. grade or quality came in some 20 yours later. The "boarding house" was prominent in the United States before 1800, and bunk had ac quired the sense of berth.orbed about the same time. No one will deny to the Southern negro tha introduction of the banjo, known in that form from at least 1774
Nearly a century and 'n half ago Dr.Witherspoon, the Scottish Pre- sident of Princeton, wrote for the first time on Americanisms, word of his own coining and formed (as he tells ue) on the analogy of Scotticism. The fact that the sub. ject required a name shows that the colonists had already made some difference in the language which they took with them. The differ- ence was, indeed, much larger than Witherspoon realized. A closer study reveals that almost from the beginning the settlers were bath adding to and altering their or senses of American origin establish dinary speech, not only by adopting new words from the Indians buted in English by the middle of Inst by using the old words in new century cannot readily be estimated senses. It was not long before at present, but it would be aman! came to mean maize, and in comparison with the number "lot" a piece of ground, lumber which have flowed in since. Many to be used for timber, and hem of these have so quickly become.
familiar that their origin: 8 un- Many colloquial turms are now.
What ndjectives could perfectly at home anywhere in the suspected. be less suspicious than govern- English-speaking world. The ear- and **bogus," mental," law-abiding, and liest are" boss," " whole-souted bru
Corn
lock" to denote, a tree; instead of A plant, while branch."
.and creek"
became synonyms for atroam Words also which had little currency in the old country became common in the now, na swamp, swale, intervale, battoin, canoe, meeting-house, log-house, cabin, and many-moro! Best Back to Wesley."
The total number of words or
The Birth of Business man,” Among other words or phrases of belittle in- good standing are troduced by Jefferson in quoting Buffon; "breadstuffs, niso traced to: Jefferson:" back pay," "back even **busincas-men " and taxes, Fo
busincas-woman." That "bloom- should come from the country of their origin is natural, and it may be accidental that the Oxford Dictionary gives bloomerize with only English examples.
"bunkun," a trio typical of the To range all over the alphabet to varied sources of our English illustrate this theme would be to tongue, for the first is Dutah, the collect material enough for the third has raised from obscurity second of unknown origin, while volume. Hare it will be sufficient to give the more striking instances the name of Bancambe County in The language of from a single letter Names of North
It is often impossible to say when trees, plants, animals, and other theolinaenscounts for
-
to boom both an noun and verb beginning early in the seventies. " ́has bean in use for Big-bug more than a century, big money. is more recent
quotation in the O.E.D. is froidsman" beforò 1800. Pioneers" to fill the bill," "to take a back
not
a particular Americanism, was first used by a British writer or estab products of the country mint be passed over, and attention confined Jished itself in ordinary English se te words or uses of wider entrenes. The Oxford English Dictionary quently fails to throw light on this. Of special interest are the words point. Bluff, for example, in the Arising out of American life, Some
Familiar Phrases, sense of a steep bank, is of are descriptive of the country, ns " back countr and back American origin, first noted (so far
Among the phrases that to all ag truced at present) by John woods, both as old as the middle Wesley in 1737. The first English of the 18th century, and the latter appearances are American în origin.
-giving rise to "back-aro to feel it in one's bones," Tennyson, but was he the first who could invent "back country seat," to be a back-number, to purely English writer to adopt the who need later to import a brace up."" to blow in, and others word '1
German "hinterland." So the use yet more colloquial and slangy Such instances are significant, of "belt, as in the corn-beit or black beft, is more direct, and is only in themselves, but as un-in- turesque than "zone." There are diention of what may follow in their open-air phrases like to take the wake. They are typical of many back-track," a bee-line" (although words and phrases already so well the equally common air-line" has known to all readers of American not been adopted in England) and fiction or American magazines that of New England. "Balance, long auch mining terma na bed-rook they may at any time familar to American eara, is becom- and bonanza. The editor of aed by English writers without ing so to ours,
. Baid
in local Iowa, newspaper in 1970 exciting remark or opposition. It "Blackwood's in 1875; in this sense brought in the use of "blizzard" for is only in special cases that the of" remainder. on rest" it can a sudden and govore nowstorm. Americanism cannot readily pass. be traced back on American ground The bowie knife, dating from 1638 into English. But at their best the to 1803.Prairie was anly be has long ben familiar to English essential differences between the, ginning its career in 1815, when readers (ita pronunciation less so), two languages are few and immate Southey remarked: If this word while the older barlow-knife has rial in the face of all that is be merely a French synonym for remained foreign Cattle have no common,
The coming in of the Americanism ia offers accompanied by a remark an its origin. "She is, indeed," wrote Charles, Lamb, the Amerienne would say something Awful," This use was noted in 1814 as peculiar to the country, people
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Bowls and Dinner, Yacht Club, v Football-Division I Navy
I.A., Club # China Ath, Argylls (October 2.)
Lammert's Audion of Household Polio, S. China . Recreio, St. Joseph's Howloon Division Theatre: Young Furniture, Salesroom, 2.30 p.m.11 Navy St. Joseph's, Somer
Dinner Dance Peninsula Hotel, sets Club, University China Modern Love. 8.30 pm Athletic, Eastern South China, European Mail :-Outward: Resreid RA Kowloon.. Flesh and the
Europe vid Marseilles (Yasukuni | Argylls. Divaion III. RE.. ta
Maru). 6 p.m.; Europe via Siberia Somersets, Fukion. South China,. Central Theatre: Street Girl." (Hakomki Maru), 10,30a.m. RA.E. Exo, I.A.S.C./E
R.A.0.0 Tides : High; 3.18 Are and 8.50 Meeting of the Legislative Coun cil, 2.30 p.m. yh
p.m. Cow 12,02 am and 1.34n.m.
World Theatre:
Star Theatre: Devil"
Lammert's Auction of Household Furniture, at Mt. Austin Bar- | Facks, 11am
Garrison School Aquatic Sports, V.R.C., 2.30 p.m.
European Mail-Inward: Europe vid Negapatams (Hakozaki Maru) Europoeia Biberin (Gemma). Outward: Europa, vid Siberia (Empress of Japan), 10 am
Tiden: High, 459 am and 8.66 p.m.; Low, 1258 pm.
Friday: (October 3.)
Saturday, (October )
Tea Dance Peninsula Hotel, s
Dinner Dancer Repulss Bay Hotely 8 pam
Queen's Theatre: "Redemption."
European Mali, Inward: Europe World Theatro Modern Love."rid Biberia (Pres Johnson): Star Theatre: Flesh and the Tides: High, 7.11 .. and 8.83 Devil,"
Central Theatre:" Street Girl; Low, 12.50 am and 2.05 p.m. Concott, nt Chinn Light der Power Recreation Club, King's Park, 215
Golf Captain's Cup.
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Queen's Theatre: Redemption Golf: Captain's,
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