Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-10-10
From the ". England Palladium.
The RESTORATION.
COLUMBIAN LANGUAGE.

deGrous of gis.tg every aid and encou-
ragement TO 10 patriotic deGgn, | have
taken the liberty of marking down for his
uie, a'few words, either particular to our
country, or uled in particular fenle.
The advantages of a ditintt language
mutt itrike every unprcjuiiced perlon. 1t
will prove the belf paAadium of our indc-
pendcnce, and tend more than any other
CIR umfance, to leGen that Brine mRNsnes
which continues 10 endanger our freedom,
and juitly excites the mott ferrous aPpre-
heniions in the bofoms of our wifeit patri-
OTIS. 1t we can once become unintelligible
20 foreigners, one great fource of corrup-
ton will be dried up. Whila we retain
the language Of Britain, we cannot forget
that we were once colony; and the pain
fal recollection of our former vafalage Is
faficient, if noe to extingui(h the fame of
liberty, at leaf to obieure is brightness.
To coin new words, or TO ule them in
new fenfe, is, incontrovertibly, one Of
the unalienable rights Of freemen and
whoever difputes this right, is the friend
OF civil tyranny, and an enemy to liberty
and equality.
The 6rf word I would recommend TO
cur great photographer, is the word be-
lille, which has the double recommended
ton not being ufed by any Englifh writ
er, and of being perfectly Ineligible to
the mott ordinary understanding.
SGT, ufd as the preterite of the verb fit,
having the fame is equal
ly entitled to notice.
Combelnif, which probably originated
among the fophimo,es. at college, is pecu-
liarly our own, and ought, therefore, by
all means, to be adopted,
MIS-, applied equally to married and
Jingle ladies, may lometimes lead foreign
sers into an error, but then BY iimplitying
the language it facilitates its acquiiition.
To imby5ve houie or fore is phrafe
peculiarly fortunate for landlords, who
not only receive liberal rent for their
houfes, but have alto the fatisfattion to
find them under confant imbr0vemrntb by
the tenants who occupy them. This may
be one great caufe of the extraordinary rife
of real eRate in this town.
QxiddAe is ufsd equally by the Iettered
and unlettered, and not being Engliih, "a
gaina wtirh our great philologer cheriihes
laudab!e ansipathy, will doubtlefs enrich
his dictionary.
GINNING has more rreciGon than the En-
gliih word .N1oot,ng, as it points out the We
ny inttrument which we ule in the anu(e-
ments OF the fields. This circumaance,
with the additional merit Of its being CO.
lumbar, entities it to confpicuous place
in the Columbian dictionary.
La, Jus! is very beautiful exclamati-
on, and great Improvement on the Enelifh
original, Lo,d, Stys. SIS is latin for inv.
This confederation greatly encreafes the
prorriety OF It's uie among the +" /avmj6"
multitude.
Ta,y for lfay is obfolete in England,
but that very confederation Gaould ioduce
US to retain it here. BeGdes it proves, in
degree, that we have tili fome venerati-
on for the language Of the bible.
S@s70, uied as the preterite Of the verb
Aozo, has not only general ufage in its ia
your, but the great authority ola celebrat-
ed epic poet of our own.
Wbenfrf thy mandate thew The Aamellh
Plan, &c.
Ha3fjJ and 6abpJl1iag, are the growth
of our own foil, ARD oughr, therefore, to
receive due dftinttion. Indeed it is We.
ny babpjGmg cigcunaante that we can
produce 10 many original words, the pro-
duce OF our own mint. ItruH, in future.
that their currency will be as great as their
value, though | hope it will be confined to
our own country. There is NOT indeed
much danger Of their being exported, for
as they fet all ;ranlation at defiance, we
fhaii probable long continue to enjoy them
tor DOR own executive benefir.
There IS one remark, which I ,un,,Id