Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Odd Word Survivals. [ARTICLE]

Odd Word Survivals.

Far away back in the days when the English language was in its infancy" there were poets who wrote of the blossoms on the trees in the spring. They didn’t write “blossom,’’ however, but used the word “blow” and made It rhyme with snow and flow. When they wished to sing of the beautiful mass of apple or hawthorn flowers they called it' the “biowth.” This word is found in the dictionaries, which assert that it is obseiete, but it Is very much alive in Rockingham county, N. H„ and Tork county. Me. The orebardist thereabout speaks of a “full biowth” or “light biowth” on his trees in May and predicts a good or poor “set" of the fruit in consequence. “Orts" are supposed to be refuse of some kind, but in tbe valley where the Piscataqua river mingles with tbe sea “orts” is the name for “swill.’’—Exchange.