Word: cultchar
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...good old days when, if I may trust tradition, a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery (Medford, so saith the legend) was set up in the middle of the Yard, where the weary and footsore might refresh body and soul, are gone. "Cultchar" did this, and probably to excessively great development of the aesthetic on one side and too little on the other, much of the present obfuscation is due. From some quarters, now that the deed is done, much unavailing regret is heard in Seventy-seven. But never yet, as far as I have...
...mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district of its size in the United States. True or not, we must, unless we are insensible alike to ridicule and the calls of duty, conform to the usage of this neighborhood and discard the provincialisms spoken of above...
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