Word: speech
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Brief for the Affirmative.W. C. Green and W. L. Munro. Best single references.- Senate Minority report, Senate Mis. Doc. No. 109, 50th Congress, 1st session, p. 38, and Speech of William L. Putnam, at Portland, in above report, Appendix...
...Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...
...which he has been accustomed, also, that he meets words which are entirely new to him. Such differences, their origin and history, as well as local peculiarities and dialects, where peculiarities have developed into dialects, will be studied by the society. This study of the natural and unconsidered speech of people in different localities must prove a fruitful one, and will doubtless be productive of results that will reveal much that is interesting in the growth of the language. But a comparative study of this nature demands the co-operative work of many persons if thorough results...
...study of dialect must always possess a peculiar interest to those interested in the development of spoken language. English, as spoken in America is not characterized by the strongly marked dialects which are observed in the speech of the people in the different parts of England, and yet, in the speech of Americans there exist differences, oftentimes as slight as the mere variation in the pronunciation of some words, which indicate the existence in a more or less advanced stage, of some development of distinct dialects in the spoken language of our country. The dialect stories which have been published...
...material will be collected by the executive committee working through its assistants located in different parts of the country. To accomplish this successfully the circular sent out by the committee says: "It is desired to interest a larger number of persons, so as to investigate the natural and unstudied speech of the people in many different localities. School teachers and clergymen in somewhat isolated communities. or students during their vacation, are in an especially favorable position to render valuable assistance to the work. The society will develop a field which has hitherto been un-worked and interesting and instructive results...