THE NEW DIALECT.
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Perhaps the tendency! of some people to turn every part of speeeh int» a Verb is a sign of an active nature, but it is an unfortunate tendency. The Baltimore American publishes an amusing rebuke to one guilty of the habit which will please purists and may do. atherw aom* good. "We had" a -"Wigntful tim* iaet week," «aid the city cousin, who was 'describing the joy* of metropolitan lif*. "One evening we trolleyedi out to a suburban home and' pingHponged until: nearly midnight, audi next day we automobiled to the country club and) golfed until dark." "Well, we had a pretty good: time last weekt too," ventured the country cousin, with a sarcastic smile. "One day we buggiedi over to Unole Josiah'e, and we boys got out in the back lot and bawebaltedi all the afternoon, and after we had ddnneredi some of the men oidered and tobaccoed awhile.**
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 411, 31 March 1904, Page 3
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164THE NEW DIALECT. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 411, 31 March 1904, Page 3
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