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tioned. It is a thousand pities that we have not preserved a greater 

 number of the more euphonious geographical names of the aborigines; 

 and it is to be sincerely hoped that as refinement and good taste be- 

 come more general, we shall by degrees weed out most of these rough- 

 and-ready appellations. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



I. Books Entirely Devoted to " Amebic aj^isms." 



1. A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases which have 



been supposed to be peculiar to the United States, to which is 

 prefixed an Essay on the Present State of the English Language 

 in the United States. By John Pickering. Boston; Oummings 

 & Hilliard, 1816 : 8vo.; pp. 208. 



2. Letter to the Hon. John Pickering, on the subject of his Vocabu- 



lary. By Noah Webster. Boston, 1817; 8vo.; pp. 70. 



3. Glossary of Supposed Americanisms, collected bv Alfred L. 



Elwyn, M. D. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859 ; 12 

 mo.; pp. 122. 



4. Americanisms ; the English of the New World. By M. Schelb 



DE Vere, LL. D, New York; Charles Scribner& Co., 3872; 8vo.; 

 pp. 686. 



5. Dictionary of Americanisms; a Glossary of Words and Phrases 



usually regarded as peculiar to the United States. By John 

 Eussell Bartlett. Fourth edition. Boston; Little, Brown & 

 Co., 1877; 8vo.; pp. 814. 



II. Chapters or Parts of Books. 



1. John Witherspoon, D. D. Essays on Americanisms, Perversions 



of Language in the United States, Cant Phrases, etc., in 4th vol. 

 of his works, published in 8vo,, Philadelphia, 1801. (The earli- 

 est work on American vulgarisms. Originally puolished as a 

 series of essays, entitled " The Druid," which appeared in a peri- 

 odical in 1761.) 



2. Adiel Sherwood. Gazetteer of Georgia. Charleston, 1827 ; Phila- 



delphia, 1829 ; Washington, 1837. Has glossary of slang and 

 vulgar words used in the Southern States. 



3. T. Eomeyn Beck, M. D., LL. D. Notes on Pickering's Vocabu- 



lary." Albany Institute Transactions, Vol. I, p. 25; Albany, 1830. 



4. James Russell Lowell. Biglow Papers, 1848, 1864. Introduc- 



tions to First and Second Series, and Glossary. 



5. Charles Astor Bristed. The English Language in America," 



in Cambridge Essays. London ; John W. Parker & Son, 1855. 

 (Shows rare " meat, and "corned" for drunk, to be expressions 

 ' of English origin.) 



