English as She is Wrote, by Anonymous

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Title: English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them.

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 30, 2008 [EBook #25933]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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English As She is Wrote,

SHOWING

Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them.

A Companion to "English as She is Spoke."

NEW YORK: D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.

Contents.

Page

I. How she is wrote by the Inaccurate 9 II. By Advertisers and on Sign-boards 20 III. For Epitaphs 28 IV. By Correspondents 42 V. By the Effusive 56 VI. How she can be oddly wrote 71 VII. By the Untutored 91

Prefatory.

"Anybody," said an astute lawyer, addressing the jury to whom the opposing counsel had reflected upon inaccuracies in the spelling

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