Littell's Living Age, Volume 121Living Age Company Incorporated, 1874 |
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Page 368
... words , a most effective agent in the de- velopment of language , is to be seen at Like other dialects , slang increases its its best in slang . Thus cab from cabrio- store of words by formation at home and let , bus from omnibus , mob ...
... words , a most effective agent in the de- velopment of language , is to be seen at Like other dialects , slang increases its its best in slang . Thus cab from cabrio- store of words by formation at home and let , bus from omnibus , mob ...
Page 371
... words which have their origin in the name of some person or place , or carry the record of some event , custom , or idea . the low - lived words which slang brings forth . With praiseworthy sternness they elbow back these linguistic ...
... words which have their origin in the name of some person or place , or carry the record of some event , custom , or idea . the low - lived words which slang brings forth . With praiseworthy sternness they elbow back these linguistic ...
Page 374
... word , meaning to furbish up this is not in the least what beggars anything . Captain Grose put on record mean by canting - what they mean by it several French words which belonged to is to talk jargon among themselves , which the slang ...
... word , meaning to furbish up this is not in the least what beggars anything . Captain Grose put on record mean by canting - what they mean by it several French words which belonged to is to talk jargon among themselves , which the slang ...
Contents
Two CHAPTERS ON THE REIGN OF LOUIS | 67 |
THE STORY OF VALENTINE | 78 |
DR JOHNSONS WRITINGS | 91 |
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