Puritan euphemisms

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My impression is that colloquial writing was very rare in America before ca. 1830.

On a serious tip - I hear "on a(n) NP tip" more and more; suddenly,
it's 1960 - at Harvard, an American imprint earlier than 1821 is
considered to be a "Rare Book," the equivalent of a pre-1801 European
imprint. So, that period is necessarily hard to research.

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-Wilson
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