Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dialect with its own grammar and vocabulary. For three centuries, it has been the language of most American Negroes, but until recently, both its origins and its rules have remained a mystery. Scholars once thought that it was either an ignorant misuse of Standard English or a remnant of archaic British dialects learned by slaves from their Southern masters. Lately, however, a number of linguists have come to believe that the dialect originated with the slaves themselves...
...wish that were true. In this modern age most farmers still follow the archaic method of taking their produce to market and asking "What will you give...
...gymnasium of the mind," for Einstein a demon "that holds its master in its own bonds, fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit." Said H.G. Wells: "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you want to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable. But teach him, inoculate him with chess. It annihilates...
Like many another evangelical Christian, Kenneth Taylor liked to gather his family round him after dinner in their Wheaton, Ill., farmhouse for evening prayer and a bit of Bible reading. The trouble was, Taylor observed some years ago, that his children could not quickly grasp the archaic English of the King James Bible. An ordained minister who was then director of the fundamentalist Moody Press in Chicago, Taylor decided to try paraphrasing the Scriptures for his youngsters-an experiment to which the children-then numbering nine-quickly responded...
...Amazing Grace seems part of a minitrend toward the archaic on the charts. Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken (No. 8) is an old English school hymn. Todd Rundgren's I Saw the Light (No. 16) is a traditional and familiar gospel song. For the ultimate reach into the past, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney's next hit may be the recording he has just made of Mary Had a Little Lamb...