Download or read book Dialect Notes, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by American Dialect Society and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dialect Notes, Vol. 3 The following list of words and phrases is made up from the recent collections of three students at Wesleyan University, all of native Conneticut stock, who have compiled, mainly from Bartlett (Dictionary of Americanisms, 1859), those expressions that are in use in their own locality. The students are referred to as 1, 2, and 3; 1 is a man from Middletown; 2, a young woman from Middletown; 3, a man from Westford, Windham Co., in the northeastern corner of the State. An expression familiar to all three is listed without comment. R means rare, O unknown, X uncertain. This list makes no pretence to completeness, and is designed merely to serve as a basis for further collections. Much of the material originally gathered has been excluded from the present list, and even that which remains is not in every case to be regarded as peculiar to Connecticut usage. But the terms are there in use, and only wider and more detailed comparison can determine their geographical extension. It may be worth while to add that Middletown is a typical New England city, somewhat more than two hundred and fifty years old, and very conservative in its temper. Until recent years the native element was everywhere supreme. Within the past quarter of a century the population has been greatly increased by Swedes, Germans, Italians, Poles, and Canadian French, but the effect thus far upon the language has not been very marked, though the distinctive speech of the older and less educated natives is becoming daily rarer. The present population is between 18,000 and 20,000, which is about twice as great as it was twenty-five years ago. 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.