Early New England Pronunciation as Reflected in Some Seventeenth Century Town Records of Eastern MassachusettsG. Wahr, 1927 - 148 pàgines |
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Pàgina 119 - While every one of the forty counties of England was represented in the great Puritan exodus, the East Anglian counties contributed to it far more than all the rest. Perhaps it would not be far out of the way to say that...
Pàgina 146 - Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England ; Made in the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860.
Pàgina 129 - Eastern Anglian counties" Essex, Middlesex, and London as well as Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, it appears that his statement of the origins is more than borne out, for in the above distribution slightly over 71.52 percent of those who can be traced are represented as coming from those counties. If Essex, Middlesex, and London, however, are not included in the term, the number that came from "the Eastern Anglian counties
Pàgina 124 - Historically their enterprise is interesting not so much for what it achieved as for what it suggested. Of itself the Plymouth colony could hardly have become a wealthy and powerful state. Its growth was extremely slow. After ten years its numbers were but three hundred. In 1643, when the exodus had come to an end, and the New England Confederacy was formed, the population of Plymouth was but three thousand. In an established community, indeed, such a rate of increase would be rapid, but...
Pàgina 89 - ... the single county of Essex, and, to be still more particular, this precise portion of that county in about the centre of which we are to-day assembled, had more to do, and exerted more influence, than all the rest of England combined ; and, consequently, that it is to this identical neighbourhood, strictly speaking, rather than to the entire kingdom, that the origin of New England, and through it the American nation, must be traced by the careful antiquary. From a list of the earliest settlers...
Pàgina 146 - A Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling...
Pàgina 130 - we are to look for the roots of Eastern Massachusetts speech in the eastern dialects of England.
Pàgina 142 - On the other hand, it should be pointed out that there are no specialized agencies rendering assistance; the families look forward to the day they come into being.
Pàgina 91 - ... sentence, he could scarcely have done better than ' she can't seem to go into a room without the things fly right into their places.' A glance through Mark Twain's Library of Humour, a collection from various parts of the States, discovers a few more words, mostly from the New England States. We note that as the scene shifts westwards, the old dialect appears less and less, but still it has travelled and, though sparse in growth, has found its footing. Indiana supplies froze (frozen), roust (rouse),...
Pàgina 3 - ... pound in pork at three pens a pound and ffifty too pound in corn of all sorts as it plase god too blese them too be payd at too tarms won half by the tenth day of novembr next and forty cord of wood which is too be payd yerly by the last of Jeniwary next and soo anoaly from...