Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-12
What Il Good EagiisSiH

Mr.. Fitz Edward Hall. who Is an An
glicized American and an lOriental and
pathological scholar of some reputation.
is confident that the mother ton6ue Is
being spoiled on this side OF. the Attain
nc. de actually charges William. Gull
len Bryant with writing much worse
English than did Charles Brockden
Brown pear the close of the last cent
ury,' and makes Mr.. Bryant q type Of
the prevailing .degeneracy Of our edu-I
Gated men,. Mr. Gilbert M. Tucker IS
mucheyerciseda at this, and discusses
the subject atdength in the North Arner-
tcdn Rstieso, Having confessed that
there are local peculiarities in the dif-
ferent sections of our country, he vent
ures the declaration, which we have
heard before. that there is less slang and
greater harmony of usage among Amer
leans than Englishmen. He finds, first,
that people on this side of the water fol-
low the spelling in their pronunciation
more closely than do their British breth-
rem. Thus Englishmen sound the thor
oughly Anglicized French word trait as
it were spelled tray. What Ameri-
cans call silver the English pronounce
silver. The analogy of liver and the
example of Chaucer are in favor of the
American usage. Schedule, which we
pronounce as if the ch were a K, is in
England almost the only exception to
the rule that CHI is hard after 8. for it is
there called shedule. Americans have
simplitied photography by getting rid of
the second g in Wagon. and g in storey
OF a house, and have expurged ugh from
Nth rIe
from labour. arbour. honour, clamour,
harboHr. colour, neighbour. candour,
vapour. favour; the ! from wool en-,
travel er, and they are getting rid of the
French tail-piece ue from many words
1t will surprise many of our readers
to learn that the followingwords are OBJ.
solete in England: AdEe, afectation,
amerce, andirons, angry (said of q
wound>, bay-window, bearers cat q
funeraD, burly, cesspool. clodhopper,
clutter. copiOus, counterfeit money,
cross-purposes, deft, din, greenhorn,
hasD. Intel. loophole, newell. ornate,
perforce. ragamutfin. riffIa rigmarole,
scant, shingles, sutler. thill, ,toady,
trash. and underpinning. In their
place the English have invented such
words as Otntttnq or tolling for adding
up; htpped for out OF spirits; marcy fol
laborer; Jod for pastime; outing fol-
pleasure excurs: on; 6and for beat. They
u>e famous for excellent traffic fol
ira ell. rot for nonsense. jag for pitcher
good form for good taste, and tidy fol
almost anything complimentary.
young person is always girl in En-.
gland. An invalid is ill unless nauseat.
ed. yet he is described as being in 9
sick-room or sick-bed An Engiishmar
is horrited at the idea of riding in q
carriages; yet he rides in an omnibus OF
street-car. When he enters a vehicle a
the side he drives; when at the end, he
rides. Di erent to instead of different
from; these kind AMI those thought
and immedia' ely ordirectly, for as soor
as, are among the other Anglican bar.
barisms specified by Mr.. Tucker. The
bulk o. so-called Americanisms are O.
English origin, and have been KEEP
ali e in this country while they have
died out at home. Mr.. Hall opponen
lakes some good points against him
buG we doubt if the question is any
nearer settled than it was before. TIL,
practical point is that nglishmen ant
Americans speak SO nearly alike tina
they can understand each other.-Csn
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