Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-16
; Weeds and Words
ryA. NEwBURY,


in to his house handful of weeds plucked
from his side yard, and turned to the diff
ferent members of his family with the
question, "What is thisp Can you tellme
the name of that plant. 1t was pro-,
nounced to be sort Of grass. But what
kind is it? How is it classed?" he asked.
go, don't know; it is something very
common"sz
"What is this planta'' he said, pulling
another from his handful. You can tell
me something about this one, for have
seen it at almost every roadside. ;"
Yes, SO have /, but | never minded
what il was. All those things in your
hand are worthless weeds, and cannot
conceive why you should care anything
about them"
az do care, for this reason. | am de-
termined to have no more guests whom
cannot call by name. These worthless
weeds" as you style them, are all over my
premises, and they shall no longer be en-
tire Strangers to me. So I am going to
consult Gray and other botanical authori-
ties, and make these weeds my summer S
study. ."n
And so he did and he was amply repaid
for the time given to such investigations.
There are many weeds which overrun
our common conversation, and make them
tolAiiiai Il. ouA no., " 80 1:..I
4au petter fecognlAe anu classify n''i0'
Let us look at a few of them.
The proposition "without" is sometimes
substituted for "urless." Without may
be used before nouns, but it should not be
used to connect verbs. We ought not to
say, l Gannot tell aoaesoue go' etc'' put
Goods is never an adverb; hence it is
not right to say, My dress fits good, but
NY dress nus We'll.
heai Is not 10 De iorceo !nto the rank
OF adverps, aithough schooi-glrls nave CON
splreo 70 make II one. oucn EXPRESSIONS, !,
as TSoS pretty, Tede ugiy anu Te0S
gooq are not neaAy correct.
aao ,oagnt Is wrong conoina1ion' @
nealu oi.enel u @ Wv % nng,s'I1 ToIl .ndh thosa s
IL IL. 7o,,SS ~ 60 4ho o,,t;ro ,hrssa soY,o,
VINO WOuN not use the entlIe phrase soIie
times leave 1t carelessly TO De UNDERSTOOD
as, one oughtto tell him frankly What
she thinks" Yes, so she had"
Got IS poor, lll-used servant made
10 DO the work OF other words. nave
got TO DO It persons say, instead OF
ought to do 1t, or :! must do It. He
has got ms lessor" they say, when they
mean learned MS lesson. In most cases
when " have got is used, the simple ="
nave would 'bettsr answer the purpose
we advise. our young friends to weed ou
this word got as much as possible iron
conversation, and see how much more
ciearness ana force this process ADDS te
their expression.
Well is an lnelegant and useless ex
pletlve when used at the commencement
OF question or remark.
:. W. ell, What 40 you thlnk OF II
ELL hardly know what to thlnf
OF IT,
Inls Is weed universally Iouno IN New
England, ana the sooner 1t Is expelled TN
better. a Yankee may be known tn
world over py passing through TINS gat'
Wen before ne enters on "hat n
wishes to say 1t does not belong to tn.
pure well OF English undeflled, OF whlcl
we read but rather we should beware
Dropping @ buckets into empty eens,
anu sso~les sS o.a una,N ~ atawlng aotmng up
IN some oi tne ooutheln o!aIes lndeea q
Is nearu e 50 frequently tnat u loses al! IL
lolce. oo, moeed, OF, Indeeo, ao,
saiutes the, eai =. every turh, uhtii IN
otnerwise empnatlc "oro becomes uteeri.
mslgnihcant. a,.,,
IN tne poutnern otales IKE Is oIte1
suostltused 1or as. Llke should b
useo before nouns, put not before verbs
Lace we 90, ana slmllar expressions
have no gooo sanction.