Word: daunt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Cambridge-Oxford. The race between these colleges will take place on April 13. The Oxford crew went into strict training on January 24, and the crew, as at present made up, is as follows: Bow, H. D. Daunt, B. N. C.; 2, S. F. Bayley, Christ; 3, W. H. Greenfell, Balliol; 4, G. F. Burgess, Keble; 5, J. W. Booth, Pembroke; 6, R. H. Pelham, Magdalen; 7, H. B. Southwell, Pembroke; Stroke, W. A. Ellison, University...
...Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical...