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Men's wear continues to Interest At the time of the War of Inde have read on this subject le quite the artist, and the latest article I pendence, American writers bega Bolshevik in tendency and sugges to bé moro American than before, tions, says a Home writer. Man and English, erities became more to much too static in his dress de- critical of their style and dietion. sign; it is true that during the last To stamp a word or phrase as an thirty years there have been some Amorianism (a term frat used in modifications in the cut of his 1781 by Dr. Witherspoon of Prin-clothes, but compared with the cotown) was to imply that it was changes in woman's fashions dur- no fit expression to be used in any ing. the same period they have. good writing. Witnesa Southey's been negligible. The two most comment on "prairie," which runa: "If this word be merely a French drastic, soft hats and collars, are synonym for savannah, which has after all merely Victorianism long been naturalised, the Ameri. minus starch. Man has two fixed cans display little taste in pré-points in his clothing scheme, his. ferring it. How little could ha neck and his feet, between which forcase that English dictionaries cloth must be continuous, so ac in course of time would have to cording to Euclid his shape must record not only "prairie" but Woman, on the other hand, has no either be a line or elliptical zens of compounds like "prairie- fixed point around which her cloth- dog" or "praire-schooner."
In spite of the critics and the ing revolves; her waistline, for purists, English writers found it example, may be delicately poised impossible to resist the American her knees or altogether missing: anywhere between her neek and Influence, and one by one they al- lowed to slip into their writinger bodice may begin just under new words of many kinds which her ears or well down her back had their birth across the Atlan-
and chest or at any intermediate tic. The politics of the United point; her skirt may sweep the States began to supply a number continuation of material below the
ground or be a more suggested: of new terms, as "bunkum" (from line temporarily fixed to represent Buncombe county in North Caro- lina), caucus". (an old. Boston
waist; her pockets may be, may
word), "gorrymander" (a combina.have been, in a jacket, at the back, tion of "salamander" with the front, or base of the skirt, or pro- name of E. Gerry, Governor of Jected into midair in the form of Massachusetts):
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clothes for three reasons, none of dignation-meeting, lynch-law,
which appeal to woman-warmth, platform (as the basis of party as a convenient means for suspend- to conceal him in conformity, and politics), wire-pulling, to sit on the fence, to run à candidate, ete.
ing pockets. In his whole design all now quite famillar to Eng-which he displays collar, tie, and he has but one small window in lish readers.
A Blizzard is "a Knock." Others are distinctive of the fresh conditions and experiences of a new country No English writer thought of using auch terms as back-woods, buff (a.steep bank or elif), snag, swamp, until long after they were in common
se in America,
Both "immigrant" and "squat-
a small portion of linen. Woman is shop window from hat to shoes. abolish man's fixed points and The latest suggestion, then, is to enlarge his inner cravings in outer decorations. Leam not worrying, the leisure world that all these ns at present I see no prospect of
changes ithply.
is only by evidence of early use that we can assign to the United States such expressions as these: to take a back seat, to catch on, to cave in, to clear out, to face the music, to give out (come to an end) to go back on, to have a good time, to get the hang of, etc.
ter" are American, the first having something outside of English ex- been invented in 1792 to corres-perience, as in "to strike oil.", t pond with emigrant." The orl Egin of "Indian file" is obvious, and "beeline" comes from the observa- tion of the wild bec to find out where its store of honey lay, Blizzard." now common in Eng lish use, is first recorded in the sense of "a smart knock'; the mo- dern meaning has not been traced back beyond 1900. "Log-rolling" comes from the occupation of "lumbering," and "lumber" itself,
Americanisms have been obser- ved and studied for nearly a con- tury and a half, but only in very recent years has it been possible
in the sense of timber, is an Ame" to see that they have been so num- ricanism. So is to "boom," ori-erous and so important. The time ginally applied to the rushing of a river in food.
for any prejudice against them is pasty they have already proved I would be very enlightening to their value as additions to the classify all these new expressions English tongue wherever it is and to note how long some of them used.. With English as a world- were in gaining acceptance.in Bri-wide, language, it is immaterial tish use. "Bogus," for instance, from what sources it is enriched, has been traced back to the Paine-so long as the additions do not im- sville (Ohio) Telegraph of 1827; pair the dignity, or offend against in 1866 the "Cornhill Magazine" the spirit, of one of the greatest of still speaks of "a bogus parlia- modern tongtes.-Prof. W. A. ment with the qualification as Craigie in Ex.
the Americans would say."
"Balance," in the sense of "re mainder" gpes back to at least 1819; but as late as 1875 we may read in Blackwood, "balance, long familiar to American cars, is be- coming so
to ours" Charles Lamb wrote, "Shu is, indeed, as the Americans would express it something awful.". No one now associates that use of "awful" with America, hut in the early years of the nineteenth century it was noted as peculiar to the speech of New England.
Good English writers have usel the verb "eventuate," but It had been employed in the United States for some fifty years before De Quincey wrote, "In the "upshot. this conclusion eventuated (t. speak Yankecishly)."
Enriching Our Tongue, The popularity of typical Ameri- can writers such asArtemus Ward, Max Adeler, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, etc., accounts for much of this influence during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Among the noung we borrowed there are boss, bowfe-knife, bread- stuffs, carpet-bag, census, cloud: burst, a cold snap, dry goods, dough-nut, grave-yard; half-greed. Ionfer, residenter, snow-plough. Among the adjectives are lengthy, law-abiding, and whole-souled.
But it is in the phrases made up of common nouns and verbs that {the inventive genius of the Ameri- con tongue most diaplays Itself. No doubt many of these might be described as slang, but they have | a way of rising out of this charac- ter and taking their place in sori- ous discourse and writing. Being mado up of pure English worda, there is little or nothing to distin- guish them from similar phrases, invented at home, except when there-is-ha-obvious allusion to
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