Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28
so-cALLEp AMgRIcANlaMs.
Macy OF Them Have Highly Legitimate
Pareatage In Old England.


MAny Of Them Have Hiehly Legitimate
Percentage Ia Old England.
Now the slang Of people is one
thing and its language another. says
the London News Most OF the.
Americanisms are simply slang;
many OF them have been adopted by
the slang lovers in England. The
phrase like for ..as.n aShe cannot
love like ! can, Is at least as com
mon in England as ia America. and
has been defended on good and old
poetieal authority by William Morris,
il we are not mistaken Stlll there
is no actual harm or crime Ia using
ssas"-..she cannot love as / def
We happened 10 prefer il. like We do.
We may call keyless watch a key
less watch. II Is free country.
Americans call II a ''stem winder. =
and who shall throw the first stone
at them? II lisa graphic expression, 90
Is ''two-shoot scatteF-guH" for fowl
ing-piece. There are American words
for American things. like "chewlng
gum" - an abomination very well
known 70 Scotch boys, but they call
in India rubber However. they
chew IL. nobody knows why.or rather
we do know Why. By chewing a
piece OF India rubber for months Ii
becomes a yiseous solid. and can be
used 10 produce cracking noises. but
whether this Is the end and aim
OF chewing gum Is another thing.
SOme words are not American at
all. but English. '-ChirkH Is used
by Mr. SwInbnrne In the ''Masque Of
Queen Bersabe. aud no doubt he
has old authority. ''chouse" Il per-
ieetly good English .'Curlicncs" d
rendered ..pranks. ''capers II is
no more American than ''chouseH or
.chIrk z Andrew Fairservice. living
10 1.-The Fifteen. apples .'eurlienea
10 the architectural ornaments 81
Glasgow cathedral The phrase Is In
sRob Roy and 40 doubt Il good
scotch; the sense 81 the term may
have been altered In America y.
n "" "a only the initials 81 First
Families % Virginia How Ia from
dist nguishea some ~ them may
have been the reAdev % DE Foes
..Moll Flanders" - well aware "My
Juvenile Union blue" rcads like
/ form o. Mr. Wellev's ing Prooslan
blu" Tho guess. u English.
He was q lovely youth. guess.
says William Wordsworth. quite
seriously a. ever. and ChaIcar uses
I thr phrase, tholgh perhaps ia
more common sense; s.Huney," a
phrase 81 cndecrmeni. Is Scotch
Lint" means 'leg" IN American
I we do not know what "a American
I for back. or whether Il j. rrcog-
uizcd at all Mr.. Howeils hiames
al English lady Ia one Of his moral
\ tales for naming her hack II would hs
4 useful 70 know what she ought
I 10 have called IL Americans do.
not. II polite. 70 70 bed they retire
They do not take the view Of bed
proclaimed by Anatolc. Frances latest
hero To ''loaa" for 20 s'lend" a.
/ Chaucerian, but undcsi able. Mad
for angry" Il scotch and Irish
both races thinking that IRA est.
/ brcvis Juror, as the Latin grammar
says 10 mecch. "a. OF course. old
English and Shakespengian. mob
ocracyn ought 10 30 ''ochloc -acg.
but IS not particularly American.
"Mugwump u difficult. but IL said
10 be red Indian 'mukquomp. "a
superior person. like tho phairshon.
Naturally a mugwump Il ever Ia tho
minority. "Netop." friend. IL OBJ
solete, and Is Indian 'Ha. NitzchL
shangawaba. Is the way to address
an Indian "TIo. friend. whisky"
admire" is used by Milton. and. in
fact. Is not uncommon In the Amori-
can sense, The anxious bench. or
moaning bench. at a religious re-
vival Il not the stool Of repentance.
Burns occupied tho latter; the
former. never. The professors In
tsoduced In Scotland about 1852 the
phenomena OF rcviyalism tho ven
triloquial meanings. and crowds. and
excitement--as Principal Baillie saw
and remarked. But the stool OF re-
pentance is something perfectly diff.
ferent