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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 8 4 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
le in this field, may establish the antiquity, if nothing more, of many other dialectical peculiarities. For the literary use of American dialects see Book III, Chap. V. There is not an oddity in the coarse, uncouth dialect of the Deerslayer and Hurry Harry (The Deerslayer, 1841) that has not its root deep in the soil of the eighteenth and preceding centuries. An interesting list of vulgar errors may be found in Elliot and Johnson's A selected pronouncing and accented Dictionary, Suffield [Conn.], 1800, p. 16. Cooper has Noah Webster's own creatur , ventur , f'erce. Sarpint, desarted, vartue, lamed, s'ile, app'inted, expl'ite can all be found recommended in grammars of the eighteenth century. The Oxford spelling Book (1726) says that sigh is pronounced sithe according to the common way of speaking, just as Natty Bumppo pronounces it. His ven'son is still good English. His consait (conceit), ginerous, fri'nd, 'arth sound Irish, but that is as much as to say that they belong t