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... are conservative of the more archaic forms of a living language , and they often embalm for us the guise and fashion of speech in eras the most remote . These B topographic words , which float down upon the parlance of.
... are conservative of the more archaic forms of a living language , and they often embalm for us the guise and fashion of speech in eras the most remote . These B topographic words , which float down upon the parlance of.
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... language , some 10,000 constitute the vocabulary of an educated Englishman , and certainly not 1,000 , perhaps not more than 500 , are heard in the mouths of the labouring classes . : But the remainder - the twentieth part - has 2 ...
... language , some 10,000 constitute the vocabulary of an educated Englishman , and certainly not 1,000 , perhaps not more than 500 , are heard in the mouths of the labouring classes . : But the remainder - the twentieth part - has 2 ...
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... languages , and they have suffered more or less from the phonetic changes of so many years . But with the New World the case is different . The colonization of America has been effected during the modern historic period , the process of ...
... languages , and they have suffered more or less from the phonetic changes of so many years . But with the New World the case is different . The colonization of America has been effected during the modern historic period , the process of ...
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... language is dying or is dead , whose blood is becoming undis- tinguishably mingled with that of other races . The knowledge of the history and the migrations of such tribes must be recovered from the study of the names of the places ...
... language is dying or is dead , whose blood is becoming undis- tinguishably mingled with that of other races . The knowledge of the history and the migrations of such tribes must be recovered from the study of the names of the places ...
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... languages . We first notice a few scattered Indian names , such as the POTOMAC , the RAPPAHANOCK , or NIAGARA . These names are sparsely distributed over large areas , some of them filled almost exclusively with English names , while in ...
... languages . We first notice a few scattered Indian names , such as the POTOMAC , the RAPPAHANOCK , or NIAGARA . These names are sparsely distributed over large areas , some of them filled almost exclusively with English names , while in ...
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