ABSTRACT
50 AMERICAN ENGLISH rections and additions. Not to speak of articles in periodicals, brief essays, and single chapters, no fewer than fifteen books devoted entirely to so-called Americanisms in speech have from time to time appeared-te,n of them of special importance-Pickering's "Vocabulary," published in 1816 ; Webster's "Letter " in 1817· Elwyn's "Glossary" in 1859· De
