Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-21
A Few Angliclsms.

tain should have said treacle. study 10 be correct even in little matters of this kind, |, but find it very hard to conform to Eng fish as it is spoken this side of the saline pool.
 Quite at random make up list of arti- cles to which the English assign names differing from those we use.
 That which we call bowl is here known as basin. In England you ask for basin of bread and milk.
 That which is known to us as a pitcher is here called jug.
 A donkey is here called moke; in Amer ica moke is negso Local slang for cab horses is peddled around the streets for feeding to cats. By the way, British cats average much larger than our American cats, and they are notorious chicken killer s. l The brindle cat seems to be the commonest. What we call crackers are here called bis- l cult, and suspect that this is strictly cor- 1 rect.
 What we call shoes are here known as boots, and what we call boots are here known as butchers. There is one shoe called the | hilo, because it runs high from the heel up l back of the ankle and is cut low in front. Our druggist is here chemist, many of | the older practitioners retaining the old 1 spelling-"chymist."
 What we call ale is here known az bitter ] beer.
 1 What is here known as hash we should 1 call stew, and what we call hash Is here 1 known as mince.
 ! In England our overcoat becomes @ great coat, our undershirt becomes a vest and our drawers become pantaloons. It is said that l when George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, 1 was in London a number of years ago he | walked into haberdashery, and, seeking to l appear to be native, asked to be shown the styles in silk waistcoats. "Jeemes," cried l the proprietor to his assistant, "step this l way and show this Hamerican gentleman our l fowery weskits!'
 1 What we call sick the Englishman calls | i'll; sickness here implies nausea and vomit. 1 ing. The British usage is wrong; but the late Richard Grant White settled the point pretty definitely. How came the British to fall into this perversion? It was, I think, because the British can go nowhere except by water; that travel by water induces un- pleasant symptoms of nausea and retching, which condition, called sickness, gradually came to be regarded as the correct definition of the word sickness. I can't imagine how 1 the British justify their use of the wordl homesick, heartsiok and lovesick.
 Here they call street car tram; correct. Hero, too, an elevator is lift, and that ii right.
 What we call telegram is here called , telegraph; it will probably never be deter mined which of theae usages is the better Our postal card is here post card; cuff
 become wrists.
 That material known to us as canton fan nel is here called swans down, and our mus lin is known hereabouts as calico. Our locomotive becomes engine and ou
 conductor Is here a guard.
 What we call stewing (culinary term) thu
 British call simmering; our lunch is here luncheon and our baggage becomes luggage
 Our wheat is called corn, and our corn i
 called maize, or sometimes Indian corn
 Pigs feet are called trotters. By the way,
 theatrical name for bad actor Is rotter.
 A '.chill" is here called "rigor," and tn
 eruption commonly known among us a
 "hives" is here known as ''nettle rash.
 Candy is variously known as ''sweets,
 "sweetmeats" and Holly"
 Writing to John Smith, your social equal
 you are expected to address him as JohI
 Smith, Esq; if he be your tailor, grocer
 etc., you address him as MT. John Smith. The word "apt'"is exceedingly populal
 here. It is Capt to rain" "apt to be mud dy," man is "apt to go down town,"
 bank is "apt to suspend," etc. Even the
 hest prints use this word as synonyme fol
 "likely" and ''like" Another barbarian everywhere prevalent in the United King. dom is the use of the adverb "directly" fol
 the conjunction ''as soon as"-e. g.. "di, rectly he went out shut the door," Charle
 Dickens, who was quite slovenly at times seems to have been addicted to this indefen sible vice.
 What does this British word "left tenant
 mean? should like to know.
 "Quite" is another hackneyed word here;
 it is edged in upon every occasion. The first criticism would pass upon tn
 press of London would be for the indirect
 ness of it's speech. When 8 newspaper wri
 ter wishes to convey the idea that yesterds
 was pleasant day he says: "Yesterday wa
 not an unpleasant day." A good play
 "not half bad, a humorous speech is 'no
 unrelieved by wit," riotously applaude,
 address is 'not wholly unaceented by de
 monstrations of approval" and SO on, ad in
 fin. ct ad naus Now all this sort of thin may be subtle and 1t may be conservative but 1t is not in the spirit of the Anglo Saxon
 and it vexes me to find so little of the Angl
 Saxon in the literature, the speech and tn
 practices of the very people where I ha ! thought to find so much.