Word: caff
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation is to be expected; but the fact that men of three or four years' standing in a respectable college, who, sublimely ignoring dictionaries and the examples of all trustworthy authorities, will persist in calling half haff, and calf caff, shows both gross negligence in an important particular and godlike confidence in their own self-sufficiency...