Titlebook: Contemporary English; A Personal Speech Re W. E. Collinson Book 1927 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1927 English

大雨

The Sexes,o sudden.) (Wells 207). To jilt is sometimes to chuck, throw over or give the chuck. Not to respond to a suitor’s advances is to turn him down, to give him the go-by (or the bird) — — otherwise in respect of the actual proposal ‘a(chǎn)ccept’ and ‘refuse’ are the normal expressions used.

財政

Nonthreatening

constitute

The Cinema and Americanisms,’); joint (. or .); to put wise, get wise; make a get away, beat it for to . especially in the ‘crook’ dramas, but also in literature, (cf. R. Knox, The Viaduct Murder — 1925 — p. 146). The intensive some in some fellow etc. is still prevalent. As an example or two of the extravagant Americanisms wh

VEST

Some Present Tendencies,sagn 1860. Again I had always heard (and used) nothing to write home about for ‘not worth making a fuss about’ until August 1925, when I heard nothing to write to mother about (possibly there is a form to write home to mother about combining the two).

演講

Relation to Dialects and to the Foreigner,wledge of Scotch words brought by the novels of ., and . and others of the Kailyard school and the plays of . in recent times. Most of us, too, know and like the sound of the different Irish brogues and certain Irish-English expressions are very well-know here, e. g. spuds and murphies for potatoes,

exceed

頂點

magnate

indigenous

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-9616-5heatres. The war has influenced us here as, also in the continued use of plus fours (Wells 866), sporting breeches cut somewhat like the Guards’ breeches in 1917, (i. e. with an overhang over the knee) and trench-coats (.), though the British warms (.) are rarer now. Long before the war the elegant