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English as She is Wrote
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Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and on Sign-boards, For Epitaphs, By Correspondents, By the Effusive, How she can be oddly wrote, and By the Untutored.
Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and on Sign-boards, For Epitaphs, By Correspondents, By the Effusive, How she can be oddly wrote, and By the Untutored.
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The following notice appeared on the fence of a vacant lot in Brooklyn: "All persons are forbidden to throw ashes on this lot under penalty of the law or any other garbage."
[Pg. 26]A barber's sign in Buffalo, N.Y., has the following: "This is the place for physiognomical hair-cutting and ecstatic shaving and shampooing."
A San Francisco boot-black, of poetic aspirations, proclaims his superior skill in the following lines, pasted over the door of his establishment:
"No day was e'er so bright,So black was never a night,
As will your boots be, if you get
Them blacked right in here, you bet!"
The following appears on a Welsh shoemaker's sign-board: "Pryce Dyas Coblar, dealer in Bacco Shag and Pig Tail Bacon and Ginarbread, Eggs laid by me, and very good Paradise in the summer, Gentlemen and Lady can have go. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Not worth your time. Too many better books of this ilk available; -- see Ambrose Bierce for instance.
Skip it.
Grappig
Funny and instructive, January 21, 2016
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This review is from: English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. (Kindle Edition)
I commend this to anyone who has occasion to communicate by writing in En