Abstract
IN MY EARLIER ARTICLE, Horse Racing Accounts in the Spirit of the Times,' I indicated that Americanisms occurring in the Spirit would be dealt with in a separate article. Listed below are io8 vocabulary items, accompanied by illustrative quotations from the Spirit and divided into three categories: (I) Americanisms not previously recorded; (2) antedating quotations that indicate the priority of the Spirit's usage; and (3) new or original senses of existing expressions. The historical dictionaries cited are the Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement (OED), the Dictionary of Americanisms (DA), the Dictionary of American English (DAE), and the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (DSUE). Whenever possible, I have provided a definition taken from, or adapted from, one of these dictionaries.
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