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Word: pam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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 conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare, and stare. The provincial and antiquated gotten is paraded forth in all its whilom beauty and usefulness by the simple and guileless Westerner, while the meek and humble it is made to pay a much heavier part than it was ever intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVINCIALISMS AT HARVARD. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

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