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Word: hybridism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...unless perhaps our consonant-sounds. The English language abounds in vowels which are little better than grunts. We have hosts of curt little vowels that seem to be the remnants of some full sounds which a continual press of business prevents us from ever completing. One of the most hybrid and unsatisfactory of these - to take an instance - is our short o, as in hot. It is quite interesting to speculate as to what the full sound can be which is swallowed before uttered in this case: is it a bark, a whoop, or a growl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH VOWEL-SOUNDS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...fire, blacks my boots, brings up the water, steals the coal, upsets the inkbottle, and fuddles himself before 12 M.?" No; it is too much. Let some distinctive name be chosen at once, and, whatever be its origin, be it Greek, Latin, French, German, Anglo-Saxon, or a hybrid, let it, Oh, in the name of justice, let it be opprobrious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 1/28/1873 | See Source »

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