in the United States of America. 527 
Annual Review (vol. vii. p. 241) mentions, among the instances of “ incor- 
rect language” in Marshall's Life of Washington, the use of « testing for 
hutiing to the test,” inthe example above quoted from that work. The 
Christian Observer (vol. ii. p. 564) in the review of Dr. Mason’s First 
Ripe Fruits, gives the expression above quoted from it as one instance of 
the “ occasional vulgarisma, possibly Angio-Americanisms,” of that work, 
Some of our own writers have also expressed the strongest disapprobation 
of the use of this verb: “ Test isa -veré only in writers of an inferior tank, 
who disregard all the land-marks of language!” Monthly Anthol. yol. vii. 
p- 264. 
TO for AT: “I have been to Philadelphia, for a¢ or in Philadelphia; I have 
been éo dinner, for [have dined.” Withersp. Druid, No. 6. Expressions 
like the following (which have been noted by an obliging English friend) 
_ are very common with the illiterate : “ He lives to York ; he is fo his store. 
I have even heard, He isn’t co home.” Dr. Witherspoon classes this use 
_ of to among his“ Vulgarisms in America.” The following instance is from 
an American edition of Rodertson’s Charles V.“ He put himself to the head 
~of the men at arms, &c. Book iii. a. p. 1524 (Vol. ii, fp. 175 Philadelphia 
edition of 1804) the English quarto edition, f. 203, has—He put himself at 
the head &e. 
To TOTE ; “to carry, convey, remove, ke. ( Virginia Fe. aa Webst, A review- 
er of Mr. Webster’s dictionary says—“ Fote is marked by Mr. Webster, 
Virg. (Virginia ) but we believe it a native vulgarism of Massachusetts.” 
Monthly Anthol, vol. vii. p. 264. Dr. Withershoon, however, many years 
“ago noted it as a word peculiar to“ some of the Southern States.” See 
his Druid, No.7. It is. mere ee much more used in the 
southern than in the northern states, 
TOWN. «A collection of houses, a district of certain ges: the inhabitants or 
the legad voters of a town.” Webst.. " 
“ A collection of houses joining, or nearly joining each other, - the first. 
“requisite in the definition of a town, though the word be taken in the oos~ 
_ est sense that is admissible in Europe, In Vew England, however, a town. 
__ is very commonly described as containing two or three villages ;, and these 
are frequently separated from each other by two or three lakes, and two or 
three tracts of forest....A ¢own, then, in Connecticut and the other parts of. 
