| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...or two general remarks. The vulgar in America fpeak much better than the -vulgar in Great Britain, for a very obvious reafon, viz. that being much more...dialect between one county and another in Britain, than then; is between one ftate and another in America. I fliall alfo admit, though with fome hefitation,... | |
| George Philip Krapp - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...from place to place, they are not so liable to local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one...and another in Britain, than there is between one state and another in America." Describing the state of New Jersey, Works, IV, 407, he remarks that... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...place to place, [Americans] are not so liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one...and another in Britain, than there is between one state and another in America." Noah Webster made these linguistic bonds a political issue — "Our... | |
| Jeffrey Kacirk - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...from place to place they are not so liable to local peculiarities, either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one...county and another in Britain than there is between one state and another in America. — John Witherspoon, Scottish-born theologian, president of Princeton,... | |
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