Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — How Americans Are Said to Have Talked. [ARTICLE]

How Americans Are Said to Have Talked.

Mr. James Greenwood, in his English grammar of 1711, says many pleasant and suggestive things. Ho says : “One ought not promiscuously to write every noun with a great letter, as is the fashion of some now adaies.” He says : “Our ancestors mislikt d nothing more in King Edward the Confessor than that he was Frenchify’d.” Ho says: “Hern,’ ‘ourn,’ ‘yourn.’ ‘hisn,’ for ‘hors,’ ‘ours,’ ‘yours,’ ‘his,’ is bad English.” Ho says: “ ‘Yes’ is more us-uni and mood is h than ‘yea. ’ ‘I ’ for ‘ yes’ is used in a hasty or merry way, as ‘ I Bir, I Sir ; ’ and sometimes wo use ‘ay,’ but this way of affirming is rude and ungentile.” He says: “They say that the Americans bordering on New England * * * cannot pronounce an * 1 ’ or ‘ r,’ but use ‘n ’ instead of it; so for ‘ lobster ’ they say ‘nobster.’” Ho says, in respect to dialect at home : “Whereas Ihe inhabitants about London would say, ‘ I would eat more cheese if I had H,’ a Northern man would speak it, ‘ A and eat mare cheese gyn ay Lad ct,’ and a Western man. ‘Child eat more cheese an chad it.’ ” —All the Year /'ound. There are between twenty and thirty potato-starch factories in Aroostook county, Me. Each one of these consumes from 1,000 to 3,000 bushels of potatoes a day. This locality has but few railroads, and the expense to the farmers of marketing the potatoes is very great. The first factory for the manufacture of starch was erected on the Aroostook river in The scarcity of eggs is attributed to the fact that the country people find it chcaj>er to eat them than to market Mid buy meat with the prooeeds.