Word: mass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most familiar of these. Indeed, we must not look to London (pace Mr. Richard Grant White) if we would like to hear English as she is spoke by those who know how to speak her. The Irishman who tells you that the church was "thronged" at early mass, or that he "wrought" two hours for you, uses finer Saxon than the dwellers on the Thames who write on his "honour" that the "labouring" classes are highly "favoured" in these days. And we Americans who call the monthly periodicals "magazines," or who sell them in "stores" have quite as good warrant...