Glossary of supposed Americanisms

by Alfred L. Elwyn

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First edition

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 12 -122; original brown cloth, spine faded, text foxed, else good and sound. Mencken, in his The American Language, writes: It was chiefly devoted to showing that most of the 465 terms it listed were English provincialisms or archaisms, but he also listed a few words and phrases picked up in Pennsylvania. Elwyn, under ball, offered one of the early descriptions of baseball, He

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