Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-11-12
igating' this terrible moor. l preferred
II to the hard and dusty road. The in

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habitants around, who seldom venture
here, have very solemn stories 10 r.
but how much more solemn would be
their stories, if put upon one OF our wide
reaching prairies. True, the mist might
delude d man here, but there are no
wild beasts to eat him up, even If night
! Overtake him. One side of this moor is
the property oIthe Duae Of Devonshire--
but little does that gay nobleInan now in
London, know Of the queer people he
has for tenants in this remote region.
The principal occupation have had
during the day, except that OF walking
Of course, was in study ing the Yorkshire
dialect, but this is Il difficult undertaking,
for even this dialect has dialects of its
own-and when l could learn word,
ten miles further, II might be out of use.
This vas worse than it was anciently II
the states of Greece, though ! don't
mean to say these are Grecian states.-I
The fact is our Choctaw and Cherokee
Indians speak about as comprehensive
English as these people do. l have
been quite as much at home among the
Creeks. And yet Englshmen come o.
yer to our country where the great mass
of the people speak far better English
than the mass do in England, and then
rIdicule some Yankee and western pc,
culiaritles, stamping them as the con-
versational language Of all the nation!-l
Why, the fact Is, II you 90 one hundred
and fifty miles from London, you are
just about as well off on the score Of Ian
guage in Sweden or in Holland us in
Englan About here, and in Lanca-
shire and Westmoreiand, l know
not how many dialects there are. l will
give you specimens bv and by. If you
20 into Scotland, Scotch thickens upon
you. If you push to the Highlands, it
is almost all Gaelic. If you cross to
ireland, then comes the wild Irish. If.
you 60 back toward the capital, Welch
meets you again, aye, in the very empo-
rum, at the very Court city in London
itself, there is CocSney dialect, which
If it is understandable (there ought to be
such word, if there is mott only amuses
you the more for understanding il at all.
Now these people, who don't speak En-
glsh at home, come over to Us, and rdi-
cule our English when they can travel
three thousand miles in America, and
never meet an American whom they
cannot readily understand, unless he be
of French, German, or other foreign ex-
traction. Isn't it one Of the funniest
ideas in the world?
A well educated Englishman is for
eigner in one sense, in about two thirds
OF his own little Great Bri:ain,-an
hence, perhaps, his sensitiveness in the
matter of words,-'W Wha,' says York
shireman, opening his mouth at the En-
glishman's well turned periods, in per-
feet stupidity--wha,' he repeats, and
when he can't understand, adds with a
shake Of the head-".4t's nea scholard,"I
| am no scholar-".4h's boon = toon,"
Pm bound to town, says another-"S Seea
.4h'H gang ri ye," SO PlI go with you
And then if you ask how far, you may
find it to be about-aboon mahle an
hawl, nobbut" (only,) H is always Y,
as yeats, for heats, and got for hot. No
wonder then, that when the poor York
shire girl went to London, she had rea-
son for giving the following account of
it, when asked how she liked it. "Mar-
cy, sur, Ah like nowther egg nor shell
ont. They're sike set o'iowk as f niv-
yer seed WI my cen. They laugh and
fleer at boldly like ony thing. All went
nob-but t'olhcr day 7 Z beeaker's shop,
for leeaf O. breed; and they fell a'gig-
Cling at nah, as in Ah'd been yam Zone
% = grttest gawrison's (fools) ~ warld.
n ow if were to write after the manner
of the Hamltons, should set this down
as specimen of good society English.
And there is not in il one word Of eXag-
geration-for nine tenths Of the peasant
ry Of Yorkshire talk in this or q worse
manner, and it is indeed surprising-well
illustrating, however, the difference be-
tween the locomotive propcnsities of our
countrymon and the Englsh-that such
language can be kept up in the heart
Of country! How far The educated
men of England surpass ours, who real
ly deserve that word educated, l shall
show some day or other, when i look
more at their Parliame ntary orators.
One thing is very observable, that the
English do much more in conversation
TO corrupt the language than the Ameri-
cans do, by more hurried manner oil
nunciation-by biting of and eating up
the tails of syllables and words-and by
dandy mode of jerking them out-wit-
ness the House Of Commons pdssi'n-
and a hundred streets aud places which
have been mutilated, such as Cored
Garden for Conreni Garden, and Char
ing Cross, which though now called
Charing Cross, fifty years hence will be
Char Cross IN the mouths OF every
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