The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-24
NOT In DICTIONARIES
5000 WORDS IN COMMON USAGE THAT
ARE NOT RECOGNIZED.
American Dialect Society Preparing
40 Issue Work on English ..As
She II spoke,


New York Journal.
There are three thousand English words
that are not found in the dictionary. This
discovery has been made by the American
Dialect Society, formed for the propagation
OF pure English The society has a member
ship OF over three hundred. among which
are numbered many Of the prominent philol-
ogists OF the leading colleges Of the coun-
try. foremost among them being Professors
Child and Lamar. OF Harvard; Price, of
Columbia; Wheeler, OF Cornell. and Elliott
and Bright. OF Johns Hopkins University.
The central Office, which Is situated in New
York. has received contributions from local
clubs throughout the country. which make
It their business TO trace up the origin OF
new words. and forward the result OF their
Investigations 70 the central Office. The prin-
cipal purpose OF the society is 20 get up a
dictionary which will contain as many as
possible OF the newly-colned words. with
their popular definition With this object in
view the society recently issusl circular
which was sent TO colleges all over the coun-
try. defining the scope OF the society, in
part, as follows:
First-To ascertain and make public the
fact that the word is used, or supposed TO
be used, in a special or local way.
Second-To get reports from a sufficient
number of reliable Observers IN different
places 70 determine the extent Of such usage.
Third-ro collate and publish the results.
This explanation followed It: 'It would be
possible, with a sufficient number OF reports,
10 Indicate on an outline map Of the United
States the exact area where each word or
usage which we investigate Is current We
have actually begun on such plan."
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central Office are as follows: Ball up. core,
cinch, coed. cram, crib. flend, funk. frat
freak. fresh. fruit. grind. grub. horse, jolly.
funch. hooko, play horse with pluck. play
pony, prep, prime, quiz ride, roast, sheep
skin. snap, stunt tsot. smart spank. squab-
BILE. a regular dingbat, smouch, heap, way
yonder. tote, yon coast. good scope of land,
fsty meaH. fotch holp squex, trying TO get
chaw on fe1lar, cooster, potters around.
slob. scrammed, hunkersliding, .quid, soger;
dof1nk, gooDer grubber, m0mr1ixed, muxed
np, galleyied. wuzzled.
SOCIETY OFFICERS.
The American Dialect Society was organ
tied In 1883 The officers are Charles II.
Grandgent OF Cambridge. Mass, president;
vice president Professor KittriGge; secre-
tary L. H. Barrett: treasurer, Lewis +.
Mott The origin OF some Of the words sent
stance. is the nape of an off-islander in
Nantucket. On Mount Desert the summer
visitor is "rusticrata." stupid vermonter
IS ''dodurk.' a 'goober grubber" digs pea
nuts In Tennessee. When a man Is confused
be Is "mommixed'' in Kentucky, he is
'muxed up" in Otsego county. "galleyied'
an New Bedford, ''stodged'' in Indiana and
.'wuzzled'' In central New York. II don't
hurt for It." means Il don't care In Missis-
eippi. while IT don't mind 1t Bit implies
1amity is seandalous The sunset is day
down" on the Viz ginia coast A man has
Large money in Cincinnati. ne has ''scuds'
OF II in Missouri, and session" of IL IN
Georgia. When a Terre Haute citizen is SUI
len he Is ..putchiky," and IL too weak to get
out on, or BED is..on the Mt Wniie pawhy Why
tally weak Kentuckian is slack twisted"
ssHogo'' Is strong smell in New Hampshire,
Missouri siush is s.s Dc Green corn re-
mains ssroast'n ear in Florida, even when
It Is canned, and there COW may give birth
picturesque English is all around us In
New York State. The society has hardly
touched the mine OF linguistic richness undrr
IT'S hand IN this city. Our watermen say tnat
a schooner Is "wung OUT when sac sai1s
wing and wing. and drug" for drew and
scope, for ssraped are frequ lent, used co.
swizzledr and '.hornswoggled' are used up
the State to express amazement. The farm
ers Of Orange and sullivan counties nave a
melting the sugar This they call "alama-
eoosieun." on. Staten island, splendid is
90 turn * 10 ..tarve.~ Patchogue says
s'noink" and "suInf'' for nothing ard some
thing. In the northwestern part Of the State,
they are said to be scamuljusated.
PICTURESQUE ENGLISH.
The Tthacan, on entering the house, hangs
ND his shock" his hat and coat. The OF
sego thief when caught, looks "meecking,"
or guilty. even when he has stolen mere
snitch.", a very small quantity. Quarter
eagles must be more common in the central
part OF the State than in the city, for they
are still known as ''twenty-shilling pieces
and silver dollars are 'hardtack" There
slouchy is '1opholly'' sticky Is "tacky." you
are pushed" when you are tired, You
"change orr when you move, you $50 large
when you are extravagant. you pronounce
when you are fussy, you are in yang
when In hurry, and when violent You do
1hlngs. ''kabengp' kachunk, "kahcp.' ka-
In the Tennessee mountains, streams fiow-
Ing from the east are sunrise waters" a
mnie s1a railroad train Is smoke wagon
e kiss Is a "smouch." cheese is plural with
a singular chse. sugar Is ..sweeteninG." but
feet to fits is ''itifed." and very much is a
''heap sight" or a good few" or ''some sew
eral., or way yanaer.s' A mar. points to a
coast and has good scope of land" He
Kreets you with How do you come on?''
and asks you TO .'come in and rest your
hat" Toothbrush to him means snuff
stick, mr. means cross, "juberous., timid:
lenses are ''fotch." and "holp." and seed
ard .squez." and "swole." He tells you that
s.sickness is might interruptin,'' that it Is
"a gosh wet spell and hits too my good
ness cold" that he has 1.-The beatenest boy
and talkenest old woman ever you see." and
that that young fiirt is trying to get chaw
On Teller"
The sty-baked or stay-at-home Jersey
matron Coasters or "potters' around the
house. calls her preserves ''do-ups," pork
"spack" her husband-if need be-a lob
Fcouse'' or ..loper." meaning worthless fel-
low. She "sides up" or ''cleans up or goes
'sstrulling," wasting time about the village,
hut she does not care Dutch cuss" about
going down country-that is, 10 New York
city.
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