Americanisms, Old and New: A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms Peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, &C., &C., Their Derivation, Meaning and Application (Cl...

Excerpt from Americanisms, Old and New: A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms Peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, &C., &C., Their Derivation, Meaning and Application Such is the beginning; who can tell what the end will be; or how far American in uence will modify the noble English language? Not that such modification and enlargement are to be feared per se. Already history records five periods - Early and Late anglo-saxon, and Old, Middle, and Modern English - and a careful study of the situation seems to indicate that we are on the threshold Of a sixth period; that even our Mother tongue, like the rest of the social fabric, is again passing through a period Of transition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."