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...than our vowel-sounds, unless perhaps our consonant-sounds. The English language abounds in vowels which are little better than grunts. We have hosts of curt little vowels that seem to be the remnants of some full sounds which a continual press of business prevents us from ever completing. One of the most hybrid and unsatisfactory of these - to take an instance - is our short o, as in hot. It is quite interesting to speculate as to what the full sound can be which is swallowed before uttered in this case: is it a bark, a whoop, or a growl...
...maliciously observes, was not essentially different from the ordinary feelings of an Englishman. It could even communicate its sensations in articulate sounds, and the very rattle of its inside rollers, toothed wheels, and springs, as heard when it talked, imparted to its language a genuine English accent. Again, in one of his short stories, he describes English pronunciation and language as follows: "They take a dozen monosyllables into their mouth, chew them, crunch them, spit them out again - and this is what they call speaking...
...city newspapers to treat their less pretentious neighbors of the country with a kind of complacent disdain. We frequently see in them sharp hits against their plodding contemporaries, for commonplace and awkward expressions, and general lack of brilliancy. Though this criticism is to a large extent just, there is one matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather expressive originally, but which have been fairly worn...
...One class of these words sprang into an immense use as a consequence of the Chicago fire, and have retained their place in the journalist's dialect ever since. Doubtless the man who invented the expression "Fire-Fiend" thought he had done a good thing in the way of personification, and the first six or seven editorials on the great fire were perhaps strengthened by the use of that bold figure. At any rate, its popularity was insured by the indorsement thus received. The "Phoenix" had also manifested himself to a few hopeful minds at this time, and these...
...first-class newspaper, with all the modern improvements, will also have a blank for fashionable weddings, just as convenient in its way as the marriage service, and with little but names to be supplied. Here different papers vary a little from each other; but the form in use by one of our prominent journals will serve very well as an example...