 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1815 - 314 páginas
...or two general remarks. The vulgar in America fpeak much better than the -vulgar in Great Britain, for a very obvious reafon, viz. that being much more...dialect between one county and another in Britain, than then; is between one ftate and another in America. I fliall alfo admit, though with fome hefitation,... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1925 - 412 páginas
...from place to place, they are not so liable to local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one...and another in Britain, than there is between one state and another in America." Describing the state of New Jersey, Works, IV, 407, he remarks that... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 páginas
...place to place, [Americans] are not so liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one...and another in Britain, than there is between one state and another in America." Noah Webster made these linguistic bonds a political issue — "Our... | |
 | Jeffrey Kacirk - 2005 - 260 páginas
...from place to place they are not so liable to local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one...county and another in Britain than there is between one state and another in America. — John Witherspoon, Scottish-born theologian, president of Princeton,... | |
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Great-Britain, for a very obvious reason, viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently from place to place, they are not so liable to local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between... 