Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-01-04

/ laughable readiness where It was no
/ only not needed, but served to give.
wrong meaning to the word hair, to,
1 instance, beng inevitably air, ant
Utce 6ersa. Another pcCuliarity o
this little letter Is that, unless people
are taught its exact place IN eXtremt
I yOuth-Ho matter how carefully the
may study In after life not to misappJ
lit-despite all their precautions, it vii
/ occasionally slip cut TO betrav thell
past, if not their present Ignorance.
The English refuse to admit that W.
| have invented any new words, will
the sole exception of "humbug bu
accuse US of reViving almost forgotten
4 old English or Saxon words and CIV
ing them a wrong definition.
SSkedaddle' is claimed as a York
| shire word, signifyiBg to spill. Grant
this, we have not altogether misappiI
ed it for anything that can be spilled
will run, and "skedaddle" with us
means to run away.
In some instances our English cOus-
ms may be right In charging US witt
| perverting the meaning of words, anC
sometimes making one serve for an
other differing somewhat IN slgnlh.
! cation.
For example, we say ride" for ev.
4 cry species of lOcomotion in vehicle
| whereas. when they say ride, they
1 nearly always mean to ride on horse
/ back Gas we expressly, and drive,
when they do drive or are driven; YET
I one may drive without ridiae,ds n uIan
may drive team walking by its side.
But by far the most amusing differ
ence is that we make no distinction
/ between sick" and SIP yet one can
! be III without being sick Cat the stOm-
ach), but not sick without being iii.
By FIX" Chat word applied to al
/ most anything and everything in Am
/ erica), an Englishman means to fasten
a thing so tightly that It cannot move;
hence the word fixture We say
rent house whether we be tenant or
owner; in England the person who
/ takes q house, rents it of the own
/ er. who "lets" it,
1t is needless to define the differ
! euce between lawyer, barrister, attor-
/ ney and counsellor and between doc
tor and surgeon, because having 10
such actual distinctions IN our cOUn-
! try, we require no words to express
! them. Yet the American medical
practitioner may well be glad that, be-
cause of the difference in name (the
English surgeon is only Mister, z
while physician is "DoctOr"), J, be is
not forbidden to sue for his fees, which
/ the English doctor Is.
TO" is a little word the English re-
] fuse to end their sentences with such
as I'm going to-" In their use of
propositions the dissimilarity is re-
markable; they say different to that, =
/ we, different from that. An Am
/ erican says, II prefer to walk" an
Englishman prefers walking. They
use the present participle when we en-
ploy the infnitive mood.
They invariably use should" " in
stead of would" they enquire should
you ike going?" instead of would you
/ like to go?" With Americans, should
! implies an obligation; would, mere
/ Iy will or pleasure. There is no such
distinction in England. An Ameri-
can who has been educated within the
/ last fifteen or twenty years, hardly
/ knows how to spell otherwise than as
! Webster, but as his fame Is not eZ-
+ teuCied IN England, the American who
/ follows his spelling there lays himself
/ open to the charge of ignoran2 n2e.
Those who have heard of Webster S
]
Of them, and except as a reference for
new words, it is probable that In Eng
| land the great BhiloloEer Will never be
/ looked upon with favor.
/ OF ali words which we indulge in
without hesitation, the word bug" is
! the most offensive to the British ear.
| Their horror Of it is so great that al
! though they have adopted our word
humbug, they drop the last syllable
and tell you you can't hum them"
An Englishmau named bug recent
Iy created a great deal of laughter by
i p;teOus lamentations over his unfor-
tunate name, and through the medium
of the 'Times" detailed the annoy
ance and ridiucule to which it sub
I jected him At length he was goaded
! into changing it, and selected Norfolk
/ Howard as his future c0gnomen, thus
appropriating to himself two of the
I best and oldest names of the aristOera-
cy. Soon after Mr.. Bug became Nor
/ folk Howard, something like the fol
! lowing c0nundrum went the rounds of
society
What makes him an Norfolk How
ard?3 (an awful coWard)
He's fraid of bug.
Instead of laughing, they should be
grateful to him for giving them an
aristocratic name for the detested in
sect, for, ever since his change of pat
4 ronymic, they have called the little b.
b. (not the busy bee a Norfolk How
ard.
The dictionary only could enumer-
are the differences between English
and American pronunciation; but a.
moDg the slang of the former some
words are very expressive for instance
"knag, which admirably depicts the
peculiar temper of those who are un-
ceasingly finding fault and otherwise
indulging in disagreeable p9ttishness
4 of disposition.
No american should ever attempt
to pronounce an unfamiliar English
i proper name without first enquiring
how or there viii be laugh at his ex.
pense ; but we have the proper salts
faction of hearing them make no bet
ter effort when it is question of ours.
Il The late lamented President, whom
we familiariy called ABE, was more
respectfully designated "a. B. Lin.
coin By them.
They could not be expected to prop,
( erly pronounce our beautiful IndiaI
names nevertheless. The writsr ha,
often seen a melancholy smile fit ovel
the anxious features of the AmericaI
in England during our fierce conten
ti0n, eager and expectant of news from
home and the seat of war, as the news
boys, cried along the streets of fLondor
All quiet on the banks of the Pot
omac.
CELIA LOGAN.
F DRINK. LESS WITH Your MEALS
Many men have relieved themselve
of dyspepsia by not drinking anything
} during their meals. No animal, ex
cept man, ever drinks in connection
with its food. Man ought not to-