The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-04

spoke, This part of Dialect Notes con- tains no less than 600 new words and usages, collected throughout the land, some poetlcal, many picturesque, and all curious and interesting.
 In the Tennesse mountains, streams | flowing from the east are sunrise wa ters, a mule that you can trust Is q confidential mule, railroad traln is smoke wagon, kiss is smouch, cheese is plural with a singular che, sugar is sweetening, but molasses is l long sweetening, a maQ subject to fits is hHled, and very much is heap sight, or a good few, or some several
 or way wander. A man points to yon coast" and has "good scope of land;" he greets you with How do you come on|'and asks you to "come in and rest your hat" A toothbrush to him means a snuff stick i'll means cross, juberous timld, flsty mean, popu- lar stylish, his past tenses are foteh and help and seed and squez and swole;
 he tells you that sickness Is mighty interruptin'," that it is a gosh wet spell" and "hits too-myg goodness
 cold" that he has the ''beatenest boy
 and talkenest old woman ever you see"
 and that that young tlirt is "tryin' to
 git chaw on feller."
 The sty-baked or stay-at-home Jer- sey matron coasters or potters around
 the house, calls her her preserves do-
 ups pork spack, her husband, if need
 be, a lobscouse or loper, meaning a
 worthless fellow. She sides up or cleans
 up or goes strulling, wasting time
 about the village, but she cares not a
 Dutch cuss about going down country,
 that is to New York city,
 From the shores of Newfoundland
 come some timely words; Jolly is the
 ice and snow in the water near the
 shore, slob is soft snow, swatch hole
 in the ice; a person thoroughly chilled
 save he is just scrammed. Though to
 the fisherman sleet storm is silver
 thaw and thesound of the waves break
 ing on the shore is rote, his improperly
 baked bread is dunch, the material for
 his fish balls is huggerum buff, unfair
 behavior is hunkersHding, and @ quid
 of tobacco Is old sojer. He calls fish
 that is not sorted tolqual, which is the
 French tel quel, as the Maine back
 woodsmans comprompo for French
 man is comprend pas, aad the Glouces-
 ter fisherman's mattress for a sailor is
 the German Matrose.
 Coof is the name for an off-islander
 in Nantucket on Mount Desert the
 summer visitor is a rusticrata, a stupid Vermonter is a dodunk a goober grub
 Der digs peanuts in Tennessee. When a
 man is confused he is mommiXed in Kentucky, he is mixed up in Otsego
 county, galleyied in New Bedford, stodged in IndianR, and wuz2led in New York, "T don't hurt fer it., means q don't care" in Mississippi while q don't mind it a bit' implies terror in North Carolina where a great calamity is scandalous. The sunset is day down [ on the Virginia coast. A man has large , money in Cincinnati, he has scuds of it
 in Missouri and a session of it in
 Georgia When a Terre Haute citizen is sullen he is putchiky, and if too weak
 to get out of bed is on the lift, while a
 pawlly Ohfoan is one in poor health and a mentally weak Kentucllian is sBack , twisted. Hogo is a strong smell in New Hampshire, where a severe storm is a tan roaster, Missouri slush is sposh. Green corn remains roastin' ears in
 Florida, even when it is canned and
 there a COW may give birth to a year ling.
 But why go so far atield in search of picturesque English when we have it
 all around us in New York state? The society had hardly touched the mine , of linguistic richness under it's hand in this city. We are told, to be sure, that in fashionable boarding houses we may
 be requested to trun the butter, that
 our watermen say that a schooner is : wung out when she sails wing and wing, and that drug for drew and
 scrope for scraped may be heard among us. But what are these to the Gees wax Christmas" and the "1'll be ding spizzled and hornswaggled" by which our rulers up the state express their ' amazement? The farmers of Orange and Sullivan counties have the repre- hensible practice of making their ; maple syrup by melting the sugar; this
 they call alamagoozleum On Staten island splendid is galloptious titbits are nanavelins, and to turn is to tarve Patchogue says noink and suink fol nothing and something. In the north western part of the state, when two : young hearts begin to beat as one, they are said to be scamulgugated. The Ith-
 acan on entering the house hangs ur
 rhisshock, his hat and coat. The Otsegc
 thief, when caught, looks meecking ol
 guilty, even when he has stolen a mere smitch, a. very small quantity. Guar ter eagles must be more common in the central part of the state than in the
 city, for they are still knwn as twenty shilling pieces and silver dollars as l hardtack. There slouchy is loplolly sticky is tacky, you are pushed wher / you are tired you change off when you move you go large when you are ex- travagant you pronounce hoax as a dissyllable, you booster about when yoU 5 are fussy, you are in a yang when in 8 hurry, and when violent you do things , kabang, kachunll, kaf1uop, kaslam. t to the world. We look forward with in. l terest to the Dialect Societys investi. 3 gations into the various styles of New
 Yorkese.