478 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the Englsh language 
But in Pennsylvania, more particularly in the metropolis, we expect things 
that.are past. One man tells another, he exfects he has had a very 
pleasant tide, &c....1 have indeed heard a wise man of Gotham say, he 
expected Alexander the Macedonian was the greatest conqueror of anti- 
quity.” Port Folio, 1809, p. 535. This use of the verb expect has now ex- 
tended to other parts of the United States. It is frovincial in England : 
“Eapect, suppose. North”? Grose’s Prov. Gloss. 
F. : 
FACTORY. This is a new word in America, and is doubtless an abbreviation of 
manufactory ; the latter word, indeed, is not in Johason’s and some other 
English dictionaries, but it is in Mason’s Supplement, Walker’s Dictionary, 
and Rees’ Cyclopzedia, and is well known tobe in common use ih England. 
The word factory (according to Rees) is applied “in some of the manu- 
facturing counties [in England] to the places where particular processes 
of the manufacture are carried on;” but its common English meaning is 
well known to be (as Johnson gives it) “a house or disttict inhabited by 
traders in a distant country,” and “ the traders embodied in one place.” 
To PALL 5: Bo fell; towel down Ps Se Se 
A reviewer in the Monthly Anthology, vol. v. p- 438, condemns this 
as an “ American barbarism” in the following passage of Marshall's Life of 
_ Washington : “for the purpose of cooperating with the Continental troops 
in breaking up the bridges, falling trees in the roads,” &c. v. ifi. p. 456. 
Dr. Belknap, in his History of New Hampshire, and all other American 
Writers whose works I have consulted, use to fell ; and to fail has always 
been considered as a vudgariem in New England. The verb to fall, in 
copied his definition of this word from Sheridan, But it is not in Johnson, 
Mason, Bailey, Barclay, Entick, and various others. To fell is constantly 
used by Zvelyn, throughout the chapter on felling trees, in his Sylvay 
