Word: garden
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...
Hall, F. B., 12 D. Nickerson, F. W., 1 Garden...
Hooper, A. W., 1 Garden St. Rand...
Shaw, H. R., 1 Garden St. Weimer, A. B., 10 Appian...
...White, F. D., 1 Garden...