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Grammar, Et Cetera-
ENGLISH, AND AMERICAN ENGLISH.
By Prof. Richad A. Proctor.
Au American friend of mine, in ro-
soonse lo the question by nil English-
man (an exceedingly positive and dog
matie person, as it chanced) ‘Why do
Englishmen » never •?,, say ‘I guess ?' ’ re-
pl:e-l , (more wittily than justly) • ,i \ ‘Be- . r,
cause ihev are so positive about every-
thing.’ But it is noteworthy that
wheieas the American says frequently
•I guess ’ meaning ‘I know,’ the Eng-
lishman as frequently lards his dis-
course with the expression you know,’
which is perhaps more modest. Yet
on the other side, it may be noted
that the‘down E .St’ American often
uses the expression‘I waut to know’
in the same sense as our English ex-
pression of attentive interest indeed.’
Among the other familiar American-
isms may be mentioned the following:
An American who is interested in a
narrative or statement will sav ‘Is that
so V or simply ‘Bo V’ The expression
‘Possible !’ is sometimes but not often
heard. Dickens misunderstood this
!ibleA)Ut does 8 not concern me;’ where-
as in reality it is equivalent to the
exprrsiion ‘Is it possible?’ I have
occasionally heard the expresdon ‘Do
tell !’ but it is less frequently heard
now than of yore.
The word ‘right’ is more frequently
used than in England, and is used also
in senses different from those under-
stood in our English usage of the
word. Thus, the American will say
‘right here’ and .‘right there,’ where
an Englishman would say‘just here’or
‘just there,’ or simply ‘here’ or ‘there.’
Americans say ‘right away’ where we
say ‘directly.’ On the other hand, I
am inclined to think that the English
expression ‘right well’ for ‘very well’
is not commonly used iu America.
Americans say, ‘yes, sir,’ and ‘no,
a sense different from that
with which the words are u-ed in Eng-
land; but they mark the difference of
use by a difference of intonation.
Tims, if a question is asked to whicu
the reply iu England would be simply
‘yes’ or ‘no’ (or, according to the
nmk or station of the querist, ‘yes, sir’
or ‘no, sir’) The American reply would
be‘yes, sir’or ‘no, sir,’ intended as
with us in England. But, if the reply
is intended to be emphatic, then the
intonation is such as to throw the em-
pliasis on the word ‘sir’—the reply is
•yes, sir,' or ‘no, sirC In passing, heard I
may nolte that l have never an
Amencau waiter reply ‘yessir,’ ns our
English waiters do.
The American vise of the word ‘quit’
is peculiar. They do not limit the
word, as we do, to the signification
•take leave’--in fact I have never
lieaid an American u e the word in
that sense. They generally use it as
an equivalent to ‘leave off’ or ‘stop.’
(In dassing one may notice as rather
strange the cirenms ance that the
word ‘quit,’ which properly means to
se away from,’and the word ‘stop,’
wltich means to ‘stay,’ should both
have come to be used as signifying to
•leave r ff.’) Thus Americans say
quit fooling,’or‘leave off playing the
fool,’‘quit singing,’ ‘quit laughing,’
and so forth.
To English ears an American use of
the word ‘some’ sounds strange—viz,
as an sdverb. An American will say,
‘I think some of buying a new house,’
or the like, ‘for I have some idea of
buyiug,’ etc. I have, indeed, heard
the usage defended as perfectly correct
though assuredly there is not an in¬
stance in all the wide range of English
literature which will jusiify it.
So, also, many Americans defend as
good English the use of the word
‘good ’ in such phrases as the follow-*
iDg: ‘I have written that note good,’
for ‘well;’ ‘that will mane you feel
good,’ for ‘that will do you good,’ and
iu other ways all equally incorrect. which
Of course, there aie instaucesiu
adjective are allowed by custom to be
used as verbs, as, for instauce; ‘right’
for ‘rightly,’ etc,, but there can be no
reason for substituting the adjective
‘good’iu place of the adverb ‘well,’
which is as short a word, and at least
equally as euphonious, The use of
‘real’ for ‘really,’ as ‘real angry,’ ‘real
nice,’ is, of course, grammatically in¬
defensible.
Tlie-nse of the word ‘elegant’ for
‘fine’ strikes English ears as strange.
For instance,if you say to an American,
‘This is a fh.e morning,’ l.e islikely
io reply, ‘It is an elegant morning,’ or,
perhaps oftener, by using simply the
word‘elegant.’ It is not a pleasing
use of the word.
There are some Americans who
seem more than defensible—in fact,
grammatically more correct thau our
English usage. Thus, we seldom hear
in America the redundant ‘got’ in such
expression as ‘I have got,’ etc,, etc.
Where the word would not be redund-
ant, it yet general y replaced by the
more euphonious word ‘gotten,’ now
scarcely ever heard in England,
Yet again, we often bear in America
such expression as‘I shall get me a
new book,’ ‘I have gotten me a new
dress,’ ‘I must buy me that,’ and the
like. This use of‘me’for ‘myself’is
good old English at any rate.
I have been struck by the circum-
stance that neither the conventional
Englishman of American novelists, is
made to employ the more delicate but
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881.
nt least eqnally-absurd, We generally American¬ find
ism or Anglicism. ‘caleula-
tbe Ameaioan guessing oi
tnig like hem es Joshua luillalove,
while the Englishmen of Ameroan nov-
? s ftre i,lraosl alwnys veiy coarsely Bn
2' , ew "iil t f t *' American?* PeTsiS in
leg '? 11 ? aS the t,ne Henglisl. line-
cent. \\ here an Amercan . is lesscoirse-
, j d ’ lb Trollope's ah nope s ‘American -ini iicau
Senator, , , he uses expressions which no
Ameiicun ever uses, and none of those
A " wnC:ltusms uc ’’ w,ule more deli-
’ '^ ‘ ? „® i y J ■.Ti ai^Mmmon i!’ lit! Tn
Americans . using them. t And in like
.“t'lntt Bodtices an an ftrtb Ln 0 ltshm,vn Win^f of Hettmtli the natu-
? r ' n 1 "j 1 ™ ou ' d *,/,'!/
tuecl ^ he^i^ss^um a l ! 0 R ( Ule explosion w'dch
18puieIy , Aroeimn, . i bus no English-
man ever uses and an Amencan may
‘^ gmzed at once by using such ex-
!°[ ls ' vl’yin- ^T„ n P ‘Why cer
, , , number nn , ,u
great of these
of sl !rD-i^’nd"Elfish Ame ncau and En jish Eugl'ish English. 11 ’ 168
* "**
„ How Easy - it is • to . ^ Die.
‘If I had strength to hold a pen, I
would write hpw easy and delightful
it is to die,’ were the last words of the
celebrated surgeon, Wm. Hunter; and
Louis XIV. is recorded assaying, with
his last breath, ‘I thought dying hud
been more difficult,,
That the painlessness of death L
owsng to some benumbing influence
acting on the sensory net vts may be iu-
ferred from the fact that untoward ex-
ternul surroundings rarely trouble the
dying, that Lord Collingwood
On the day Mediieranean
breathed his last the
was lumiiltnous; those elements which
had been the scene of the past glorie
rose and fell in swelling undulations
and seemed as if rocking him to sleep,
Oupt.Thomas ventured to askif he was
disturbed by the tossiug of the ship,
‘No, Thomas,’ lie answered. ‘I am
now in a state that nothing can dis-
tuvb me move—I am dying, ami I am
sure it must be consolatory to you and
all that love me to see how coml'orta-
bly I am coming to my end.’ -In the
Quarterly lieview there is related an
instance of a criminal who escaped
death from hangiug by the breaKing
of the rope. Henry IV. of France sent
physician to examine him, who repor*
red that after u moment's suffering the
man saw an appearance like fire,
across which appeared a most beauti
fnl avenue of trees. When pardon was
mentioned the prisoner coolly replied
that it was not asked for. Those who
have been near death from drowning,
and afterward restored to conscious-
ness, assert that the dying suffer but
little pain. Marryatt states that his
Capt. time when nearly drow¬ sen-
satlons at one
ned were rather pleasant for than cther-
wise. ‘The first struggle life once
over,the water dossing around me as-
surned the appearance of wavinggreen
fields.. #■* * * It is not feeling
of pain, hut seems like sinking down,
overpowered by sleep, meadow.’ in the long,
soft grass in the cool
Now, this is precisely the condition
presented iu death from disease. In—
sensibly comes on, the mind loses Con¬
sciousuess of external objects, and
death rapidly and placidly ensues
Horn asphyxia,
Henry Grady gave the visiting jour-
nalist an entertainment at his red-
deuce the ether evening. You know
Henry has recently made a fortune and
opened a magnificent establishment in
Atlanta. Bill was present on the above
occasion, and thus discourses upon it:
Henry Grady invited me to a recep-
tiou last night, I had a headache but I
thought maybe it would help me to be
received and so 1 took the street car
and went out there, and shore enough
he received me and mixed me up with
goodly company of elegant gentlemen
aDd ho made every body feel at home
in his new splendid mansion. There’s
morerooms and snuggeries and dodging
places than I ever saw in a honsa of its
size, aud all the deckorations are beau-
tiful and every b*dy so lino add new
that I was afaaid to stand up or set
down, but I watched Howell and done
as lie done, uDd Howell hegwanted to
open the window but was afraid of the
trigger for he said something might
fall on him, and I asked Dr. Lawton
what was them verses high up on the
wall in the dining room and he said
he wreckened it was tho bill of fare
but Howell said it was some lines from
Burns about—
Catches his bens and puts'em in pens
Some lay eggs and some lay none;
Wire,brier, limber lock.
Three geese in the flock
O-U-T spells out and be goue
Well, there were newspaper aud all along men
from Boston to Galveston
the country between and they looked
smart and thoughtful, and I couldn’t
help but ponder over the power
ther pens and the responsibility that
was on‘era to influence peace in the
land and good will among our people,
Long life and health aud happiness
to Henry and his family. I did’t Iook
in all the closers but 1 hope there is no
rkeleton there. Bill Arp.
The Effect of Music.
‘I lias received n letter from Bos-
t or]j ’ slowly romaiked brother Gard-
aor as lie squinted from Samuel Shin
to Wliydow „ Bebee. ‘I has received a
letter Irom Boston axin’ me for my
observ “ 8hn !’? °. n influences of nm-
sic on 1 r ‘T'y dat mankind
wMont mU sio would bo chawin’ each
,„i,i,„. up in half a day Music \r „.3 . am de ,
S ( 0 ne wall dat surrouuds marcy, peace,
e |j or |ry and humanity. Only las’week
i war wrltiu’ down my observashuns
f ur de j, is - f l)r ty. S even y’ars, and I will
dem to de public as follows;
,;De 80lin ob il borso fiddle b,ill K H »P
old reekolecslmns an starts de tear ob
reRret - If played long Muff, and de
wind am listener in do right direeshun, it will
cause de to shell out a suh-
seripshnn of *3,000 to’rds a new cull’d
Bapt,8t church. Try it once and be
convinced,
*De soun ob a harp hits a man be-
i ow the belt. He begins to fink ob all
de mPan things ho ever did,an to wish
he.hadn’t, and at the end of fifteen
mmits he am all ready to step ober an
&‘toXt'in htaJLrfK* Sring!
‘De soun ob de fiddle grabs on to
stben different beg it strings to once,
an’ a mail am knock, d so flat dat he
will esteem it a privilege to Ion you
$10.
•The jewslarp goes light to de soul.
If your wife am all ready to lope off
wid de hired man de notes of do jevvs-
harp will take her bounet off in six¬
teen seconds. If you keep a hired
man you should also keep a jewslmrp.
‘Pianer music sometimes hits und
sometimes misses. Ize known it to
make au old buldhead go home an pass
two hull hours widoutcuffin de chill'en
an Ize known it to cause a young gal
to slide dow n ober de roof of de kitcrc-
en au lope off wid der owner of a side¬
show.
‘De guitar alius brings a sadness an
a resolushun to begin on de 1st of Jin-
naiy to quit runnin out nights and
pla.vin policy. might soothe
‘I)e brass band a sor-
rowin soul if de said sorrowin soul
didn’t have all he could do to hold bis
boss.
‘De mtlodeon used to produce a de¬
sire on de part of de listener to be
buried under a yew-yew tree, but I
h’ar dey have improved lief buried it so under dat a
pusson had as be a
basswood.
‘De organ fills de soul wid aw e an
strikes de heroic chord. If you am
luvin fur a man don’t tackle him jist
alter he has bin takiu in de notes of
an organ. ! If want
'De banjo—yum you play my
dog—my hoss—my bouse an lot,
me de banjo and keep time wid yer
fut. I spect dc music of angelic harps
am sweet an soft and dreamy, but if
dey want to keep ns cull’d folks satis¬
fied up dar, a leetle mo banjo and a
leetle less harp am de fust prescrip¬
tion. Let ns now attack de bizness of
de mrttiu.”— Detroit Free Press.
Another Cause
We talk of the weather and the tri¬
fling labor as the causes of crop fail¬
ures. There is another cause that we
leave to much on the back ground.
It is the idleness and worthlessness of
our people. They are to lazy too work,
or to ignorant of the methods ot farm¬
ing, to make a success of that branch
of business. We don’t speuk of the
blacks, it is the whites we allude to.
A billiard table, a knife hnd a soft
pine board, a cheap cigar, or a squirrel
hunt will allure half the white men in
many of our bears out of their fields,
and away from their labors. Work is
what the country needs ‘There’s more
in the men than there is in the lund.’
There’s a young man in our present
thought, who was not believed to have
much in him a year or two ago. His
habits were not the best, and yet it
was observed that he was retained on
a farm by one of the most experienced
and particular farmers of the county,
This year lie lias had charge of an eight
mule place, where the lands were notli-
jug unusnally good, though pretty
well kept up. He lias been vigilant
aDd faithful. He has not passed time
on the streets of our villages, and has
been as punctual to his post as the sun
in his coins'*. What is the result?
The present prospect is that ho will
—even in this bad year— make corn
enough to supply the place a year and
eighty bales of cotton,
It is the man, good people; it is the
man, not so much the land or the
weather. There’s money in farming
if one has the energy to do it.
The following dialogue is reported
to have taken place between a game-
keeper and a patient looking through
the iron gate of a lunatic asylum: Pa¬
tient—‘That’s a fine horse; what’s it
worth ?’ Keeper—‘A hundred pounds.’
Patient—‘And what did that gun cost?’
Keeper—‘Fivo pounds.’ Keeper—‘Ten Patient—
‘And those dogs ?’
pounds, I believe.’ Patient—What
have you in that game bag ?’ Keeper
—‘A woodcock.’ Patient—‘Well,now,
you had better hurry on, for if our
governor catches a man who has spent
a hundred and fifteen pounds to get a
woodcock worth a half crown, he’ll
have him under lock and key in no
time, I tell you,’
HERE AND THERE.
CLIPIMNGS FROM OCR EXCAANGES.
Frost in ltaliegh N. C. lust week,
and the tobaco is cut off.
Thomnsville will have a stock show
on the 28th inst., so says the Times.
‘IIow did you find your uncle, John¬
ny?’ ‘In apple pie order,’ ‘How’s
thatl’ ‘Crusty.’
Why is the earth like a black board?
Because the children of men multiply
ou the face of it.
The feeblo tremble before oppiniou
the foolish defy it, the wiso judge it,
the skillful direct it.
In Dallas Texas, a woman is gradu
ally becomiug petrified. Her feet and
bauds are already as hard as stone.
‘Go to the ant thou sluggard.’ is all
very well, but if (lie sluggard will go
to a picuic tbo ant will go to him.—
Puck.
The higher you are lifted by the re¬
marks of a flatterer, the flatterer you
feel when you come down to the truth
again.
The average woman is composed of
213 bones, 109 muscles, 1 pair of gar ¬
ters, 22 old newspapers and 210 hair¬
pins.
Setae men in rogard to ridicule like
in roofted buildings in regard to hail;
all that hits them bcunds rattllngj oil,
not a stone goes through.
‘Why, Freddy, you ought not to
make such a fuss. ‘I don’t when my
hair is combed.’ ‘Yes but mu, your
hair ain’t hitched to your head.’
The crown prince nod crown prin¬
cess o? Denmark liavo come into an
enormous fortune—about *15,000,000
—by the dt ath of Prince Fredrick of
the Netherlands.
There are about *1,000,000 in the
bank of Englaud, with twenty years
interest, to the credit of the Into Con
federate government, but no one dares
draw it, as confederate liabilities go
with it.
The Half Breeds carried the day in
tlie Now York State convention and
nominated a full ticket of their own.
A resolution to re organize the party in
New York and Kings county was ta¬
bled by a large majority.
An exclrange prints ‘rules to discov¬
er spnrious bank notes.’ But we don't
want to discover bank notes of that
description. It is the genuine kind
We me after several thousand oF these
would be very acceptable.
One hundred and ten thousand pic¬
tures, of various kinds, of General
Garfield were sold in Philadelphia
within six wceKs. Ten thousand each
of the portraits of the elder and young-
Mrs. Garfield were also sold.
The subscription for Mrs. Garfield
has been closed, and the boxes all cull¬
ed in. Mr. Field reports the amount in
hand to be *332,112,16 and a balance
in boxes yet to be counted. The grand
total will probably reach *360,000.
France four years ago engraved up¬
on her statute book this law: A man
three times intoxicated shall forfeit his
right to vote. lie shall not hold an
office under Government; he shall be
disqualified from serving in the army.’
The courts of New York have decid¬
ed that when a man and woman live
together and allow the public to really be¬
lieve them man and wife, they
are married, and tho marriage is val¬
id. The liberty of this free country is
every day becoming more und more
contracted.
The noted Brick Pomeroy, editor,
lecturer and much else, went to Colo¬
rado two years ago, worth about three
hundred dollars. He is now worth
two hundred thousaud dollars, and is
president of the Atlantic and Pacific
Tunnel Company, with a capital of
seven millions of dollars.
A correspondent of the Dawson
Journal reports that the cock-spurs the
are so numerous and dangerous in
cotton fields in some sections of that
county as to render it almost impossi¬
ble to get the cotton gathered. One or
two persons who have bteu picking
cotton are now on crutches.
The New York Sun declare that the
lager beer brewed in the United States
is now one of the worst adulterated
drinks made. Barley, malt and Lops
are conspicuous by their absence, glu¬
cose being present in great qaantities. said to
Its excessive consumption is
cause kidney complaints.
It is reported that the contract to
exteud the Brunswick & Albany rail¬
road from Albany, Ga., to Selma,Ala.,
is usder contract, and the work will
soon commence It is confidently be¬
lieved that this road will pass through
Troy. The report had its emanation
in a statement said to have been made
by Fred Wolffe.
Hon. B, H. Hill has written the fol¬
lowing to a friend in Atlanta:. ‘I have
had a terrible ordeal of suffering, but
I ain now free from pain, and there
seems to be a fair prospect of perrna-
nent recovery. My general health is
perfect, and the doctors say my trou¬
ble is entirely local, and that there is
no injurity in my blood.’
Vol. II. No. 46
A house painter who is at woVk on a
scaffolding three stories from the
ground falls from it upon thosidowalk,
where ho lies limp aud apparently life¬
less. A crowd of benevolent folks sur¬
round him and labor witli him till his
pulse returns and his eyelids begin to
flutter, glass when a Samaritan places a
of water to his lips. The suffer¬
er (feebly)—‘How many stories has a
fellow got to fall in this ward before
lie gets bnynly, duru yo ?
Alaska is nbsoluteiy without law of
any Kind. Our government war ves¬
sels furnish aid, enforce all the law
there is, aud there is not enough of it
to do any good. Murder is allowable
in any way, except by poisoning and
drowning. Theft is unpunished and
debts cannot be collected. In fact the
condition of af irs iu Alaska is about
ns bad as it is l.i some sections of the
United States. It is doubtful whether
a uewspuper man could collect his sub¬
scriptions up iu that region.
Idleness is the bane of body aud
mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the
stepmother of discipline, tho chief au¬
thor of all niisceief, and one of thesev-
en deadly sins, the cushion upon which
the devil chiefly reposes, and a great
cause, not only of melancholy, butotli-
er diseases; for the mind is naturally
active, and, if it bo not occupied about
honest business, it rushes into mis¬
chief or sinKs into melancholy.
Tho Misonri Republican thiulcscoru
culture is everywhere neglected. It
is rudely planted and seldom fertiliz¬
ed. It says from forty to sixjy bush¬
els per acre, on bottom lands, nro con¬
sidered good crops without fertilizing;
but the same lands may be made to
bring 150 bushels. If corn iu the
south received as much attention as
cotton what harvested! a prodigious quantity
would be
There is a man in California who
has a snake iu his stomach and is ob¬
liged to drink large quantities of whis¬
ky to keep the I’eptilo stupefied, as it
causes him great pain when ho is lively.
When such a basis for general excuses
as this comes smilingly to tho front,
tho temperance people may sit down
and fold their hands and think it iu
just no use to carry tho fight any fur¬
ther.
Perry Home Journal'. In one por¬
tion of this county everything is in al¬ a
deplorable condition. Crops are
most total failures, and wlmt has been
made can’t be gathered, on account of
scarcity and laziness of farm hands.
Severe! tillers of the soil have abscoun-
ded on account of their iu»bii’ty to pay
their debts.
A Tough Witness.
Notjeven a lawyer, however skillful
in cross-examination, can make a wit¬
ness tell the truth,provided the impossible witness
wishes to evade it. It ; is
to put the question in such exact lan-
guage tliat it will demand the do-
sired answer. It was necessary to
compel a witness to testify as to the
way in which a Mr. Smith treated his
horse. ‘Well, sir said the lawyer,
with a sweet and winning smile—a
smile intended to drown all suspicion
ns to the ultt rer purpose—‘how dot-s Tho
J/r./Smith generally ride ahorse?’
witness looked up innocently and re¬
plied: ‘Generally u-straddlo sir, I
believe. The lawyer asked again:
But, sir, what gait does betide?’ The
imperturable witrie.-s answered, 'He
never rides any gate at all, sir, but
I’ve seen his bo’s ride every gait on
the farm.’ The lawyer saw lie was on
tho track of a tartar, and his next
vuestion was very insinuating, ‘IIow
docs Mr. Smith ride when in company
with others? I demand a clear an-
swer. ‘Well, Rir,’ said the witness,
‘he keeps up with the rest if his borso
is able to, or if not he falls behind.’
The lawyer by this time was almost
beside himself, and asked, ‘And how
does he ride when he is alone?, ‘I
don’t know,’ was the reply, ‘I never
was with him when he was alone,’ and
there the case dropped.
Franklin Asking for Work.
When a youth, Franklin went to
London, entered a printing office, and
usked if he could get employment.
‘Where are you from?’ asked the
foreman.
‘America,’ was tbo reply. ‘from Amer¬
,Ab,’ said the foremen,
ica! A lad from America seeking em¬
ployment as a printer! Well, do you
really understand the art of printing?
Can you set type? of the
Franklin stepped up to one
cases, and in a brief space of time set
up the following passage from the first
chapter of John, Can
‘Nathaniel said nnto him: any
good thing come out of Nazareth?—
Philip said uuto him: Come and see ?’
It was doue so quickly, so accurate¬
ly, and contained a dilicate reproof so
appropriate and powerful, that it at
oDee gave him character and standing
with all the office.
La Corona, La Belle Creole, Carni¬
val, Little Ewell’s and other popular Dr.
brands of cigars always on handat
Ewell’s drug store. augl2
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It is end but truejtbat a man who
once becomes deaf Seldom enjoys a
happy hear after.