ABSTRACT
TEN IMP 0 It l' ANT T It EAT I S E S 53 hundred words, of which not more than about fifty are really of American origin and at any time in general respectable use. As examples of these may be cited: Backwoodsman, belittle, bookstore, breadstuff, caucus, creek in the sense of brook or small stream, gubernatorial, intervale, salt-lick, portage, rapids, samp, section of the 'country, sleigh, and staging for scaffolding. The other nine-tenths of the book consists of mere vulgarisms and blunders, unauthorized expressions invented by eccentric writers and never generally adopted, and words really British in origin though perhaps not current in good London society.
