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- Months Long and Short
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- Rhymes and other tricks to help one remember how many days are in each month.
- Proverbial Comparison
(Leisure Hour, 1868)
- A look at popular sayings and similes, such as "drunk as a Lord" or "drunk as David's sow."
- Americanisms, by Richard Grant White
(Atlantic Monthly, 1878)
- Proverbs and Old Sayings
(Collier's Cyclopedia, 1882)
- This includes scriptural proverbs, Latin proverbs, and a fascinating selection of English and Scottish proverbs.
- Speeches
(Collier's Cyclopedia, 1882)
- A selection of toasts and short speeches for common social occasions.
- Toasts and Sentiments
(Collier's Cyclopedia, 1882)
- One-line toasts for a variety of occasions.
- An Englishman on Americanisms (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
- "It is impossible to take up an American newspaper without reading of certain persons who are designated by such terms as scallawags, kickers, bolters, mud-slingers, cranks, dudes, bulldozers, dead-heads, loafers, roustabouts, mugwumps, etc."
- Some Things We Say and Do in America, by Deliverance Dingle
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1888)
- The English Language in America,
(Century Magazine, 1889A)
- "There is no divine right in matters verbal vested in English speakers on the other side of the sea. Our language is not lent us by them on the condition that it shall not be tampered with, but is our own to mold or forge to all the purposes of our multifarious and peculiar practical and intellectual life."
- American Slang, Catchwords and Abbreviations, by Dora de Blaquière
(Girl's Own Paper, 1894)
- No common language? Brits found American terms like "greased lightning," "tangle-leg" and "pan out" to be quite entertaining!
- Wild Flowers of English Speech in America, by Edward Eggleston
(Century Magazine, 1894A)
- Folk-Speech in America, by Edward Eggleston
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- The Origin of "O.K.", by Prof. W.S. Wyman
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- Debunking the myth that "OK" was the result of Andrew Jackson's illiteracy, and suggesting instead that the word came to us from Jackson through his knowledge of the Choctaw language.
- Rhymed Memory Aids, by Maud Morrison
(Girl's Own Paper, 1895)
- Some classic memory poems, such as red sky at night, kings of England, and books of the Bible.
- Southern Dialect, by Val Starnes
(Century Magazine, 1895B)
- Gallicized English, by Rupert Hughes
(Century Magazine, 1898)
- From "rostbif" to the "ha-i-la-i-fe," a look at how Victorian French publications adopt and adapt the popular English phrases of the day.
- Modern Slang, by Darley Dale
(Girl's Own Paper, 1898)
- A Book of Tongues [The Dialect Dictionary], by Leonard W. Lillingston
(Good Words, 1902)
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