Word: calles
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...amounts already promised to Mr. Harwood, I beg to submit some explanation of the finances of the University Boat Club. For a series of years the system of expenses has been simply an arrangement of debts, so that the beginning of each year has of necessity presented a call for help to free the club from old obligations rather than make any provision for the wants of the new season. Beginning in 1874 with a debt of some $2,500, the club has been carried forward, each year keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under...
...irritable individual who has written an article in a recent Advocate on the subject of room-rents has now reappeared in an offensive and personal attack on my answer to his complaints. As he has falsified my expressions, and purposely misconstrued my whole article, I think it proper to call attention to the fact in self-defence...
...would call attention again to the fact that the Editors decline to be held responsible for the views expressed in the Correspondence column...
...broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare, and stare. The provincial and antiquated gotten...
...either of the first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of making the a too broad, the o too confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything...