Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-08-24

BY JOHN S. HITTELL.
A NJ E Il &c \ n is NJ S .

Transient is often used by Americans in such
phrases as transient persons, meaning ScJourncrs
travellers; transient boarders," meaning boarders
staying at house for a few days only transient
vessels, meaning vessels stopping in port with
out being engaged in its regular trade. This use Of
transient is an Amercansm not adopted as yet in
England but 1t is good and will find favor in time
7ranspire, in the sense of "happen" or "be
DONE" is condemned by English authorities. 1t Is
frequently used in the United States
Venis0n, in the United States, means deer meat ;
in England it is applied also to the meat of hare and
game birds. In California, where the meat of the
antelope and elk is abundant in the market venson
means only deer meat, though, in accordance with
English usage it might undoubtedly be applied to
the meat of all wild animals of the deer kind
Waggon or uagon, according to the usual Amer
lean spelling, Is often used verb in the United
States in such phrases as: The goods were wagon
ed across the mountains"
WARES is the American, as wharfs is the Eng
lish plural for wharf
WI is frequently used improperly in the United
States for "shal in the first person of the future
tense, indicative mood. Americans, when they
wish to express an expectation or intention, say 81
will do it, "Tll do it, The English, IL shall do
it, We shall do it," but if he wishes to promise
or to express strong determination, threat
he says IL WILL 1--WE will" &c. The American
who fell into the Thames made curious and udic-
rOus ms-applicatoa of "shall' and Twill :" he
cried out II oiN be drowned, nobody shall help
me-" Brightland wrote:
" In the first persun, simply, shall foretes:
In aM threat or else promise dwellS;
ShaN IN the secnnd aud the third does threat;
WI simply then f'rt.lls The future feat
To Wait is in common use in the United States,
to signify to begin to wthcr The word is provin-
cial in England.
Woods is the common American name for what
the English term "a wood"
Adr0cate, Notice and Progress, used as verbs,
were once considered as Americanisms but have
been adopted by the custom of England.
Clearing is tract of land in wooded district,
from which the timber has been cut away, and the
word usually implies that the land has been prepar-
ed for cultivation
To Girdle, to cut ring several inches wide
through the bark round the trunk Of tree, two OF
three feet from the ground so that the tree will die
Sometimes the chip pierces through the sap wooG
| as well as the bark.
| A Deadening is tract of timbered land on
which the trees have been killed. The word is Or
dinary applied only to places where trees have
been killed by girdling fire, so as to prepare the
land for cultivation
| Gubernatorial is said to be an Amcricanism.
ErecutiUe as noun, in such phrases as 1.-The
Executive" meaning an executive officer, has had
its origin credited by British critics to American
usage.
Lengthy is said to be of an American coinage, but
it now passes current in Britain
"In this connection" has been put down by Eng
lish critics American in its origin and character
they say it would be more proper to wright, "Ir
connection with the subject" or something of tn,
kind.-Alta Calitornian