Q: Emergence of "American English"

[Joel S. Berson]

Well, I meant to send it off-list!  Oh well.

At 10/9/2006 06:00 PM, you wrote:
>[off-list]  Thanks, Ben!
>
>Did you find this via Google Book Search?  With what search
>terms?  Or did you know the source before-hand?
>
>Joel
>
>At 10/9/2006 03:24 PM, you wrote:
>>On 10/9/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>John Clive and Bernard Bailyn wrote in 1954 "By 1754, the emergence
>>>of American English, adversely commented on as early as 1735, was so
>>>far advanced that the suggestion was made, facetiously, that a
>>>glossary of American terms be compiled."
>>>
>>>Who commented in 1735?
>>>
>>>Who suggested a glossary of American terms in 1754?
>>>
>>>Might I find the answers (or other interesting information about 18th
>>>c. American speech) in M.M. Mathews, ed., "The Beginnings of American
>>>English" (1931)?
>>
>>Try Allen Walker Read's "British Recognition of American Speech in the
>>Eighteenth Century" in _Dialect Notes_ Vol. VI, 1933, reprinted in
>>_Perspectives on American English_ ec. by Joey Lee Dillard.
>>
>>http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9027933677
>>
>>The 1735 comment appears to be from Francis Moore (see footnote 37, _A
>>Voyage to Georgia: Begun in the Year 1735_). The 1754 comment is from
>>Richard Owen Cambridge in _The World_ (see first page of Read's essay
>>and footnote 1 -- confusingly, the Dillard edition has 1774 in the
>>main text and 1754 in the footnote).
>>
>>
>>--Ben Zimmer
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