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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

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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._

COPYRIGHT BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
1883.

_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 of his
brief--"anybody can write English correctly, but surely a man may be
allowed to spell a word in two or three different ways if he likes!"
This was a claim for independence of action which so commended itself to
the jury that it won a verdict for his client. The same plea may be
considered in regard to the truly wonderful way in which the
mother-tongue is often written, by the educated sometimes as well as by
the uneducated.

A man, it may be urged, has a right to spe