Mamie Meredith
Biographic Data
| ID | 10319655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mamie Meredith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Meredith |
| SIGNATURE | MEREDITH M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1928 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Professor' or 'Professional
Charivaria
Prairie Schooner Slogans
HE Lore of the Lizzie Label in AMERICAN SPEECH for December, 1930,1 calls to the mind of anyone familiar with literature of the American West the slogans or mottoes painted on the prairie schooners of the emigrants-home-seekers or gold-seekers. The list I offer is brief, including only those which I came upon in several months' miscellaneous reading. Unfortunately it did not occur to me, when I was reading a number of journals of Western travel s…
Waddies" and "Hoboes" of the Old West
OME interesting notes on pioneer Nebraska terms are given in Lyrics of the Lariat, written by N. K. Griggs, a resident of Beatrice, Nebraska, from the 'sixties through the 'nineties.' A copy of his little book, published in 1893 by Fleming H. Revell of Chicago, recently came into my possession. Cowboy, the first lyric in the collection, celebrates a dying cowboy or waddy. The author evidently had the familiar Dying Cowboy of Western tradition in …
Squaw Patch, Squaw Corn, Calico Corn, Yankee Corn, Tea Wheat, Sandy Wheat
Picturesque Town Names in America
THIS pertinent query concerning the choice of names of towns in the United States occurs in an entertaining article American Town Names by Rush C. Faris in the Chautauquan for September, 1894, pages 723-6. Inasmuch as making governments and building towns are the natural employments of the migratory Yankee, ' one need not be surprised by this choice of town names from the world of politics. But not all the nomenclature has so obvious a derivation
Negro Patois and Its Humor
No one ever heard negro patois for first time without laughing, wrote N. S. Dodge in Appleton's Journal sixty years ago.' His analysis of humor residing in this language used by former negro slaves in United States gives abundant evidence of ludicrous effect of idiom itself and of readiness of negro to see ludicrous in most serious situation. During Civil War, said he, the keenest wit, sharpest retorts, severest satire, and most amusing repartees…
Local Discolor
The Hired Girl to the Hired Man, Eighteen Seventy
Hards" and "Softs" in American Politics
"The Plurals of "Bus
Language Mixture in American Place Names
Inexpressibles, Unmentionables, Unwhisperables, and Other Verbal Delicacies of Mid-Nineteenth Century Americans
Intelligence Tests and Questionnaires, Vintage of 1860
Doctresses," "Authoresses," and Others
"Tall Talk" in America Sixty Years Ago
Longfellow's "Excelsior" Done into Pidgin-English
Indian Place-Names as Viewed by a Scotch Noblewoman
The Human Head in Slang
The Human Head in Slang
"Tall Talk" in America Sixty Years Ago
Longfellow's "Excelsior" Done into Pidgin-English
Indian Place-Names as Viewed by a Scotch Noblewoman
Hards" and "Softs" in American Politics
"The Plurals of "Bus
Language Mixture in American Place Names
Inexpressibles, Unmentionables, Unwhisperables, and Other Verbal Delicacies of Mid-Nineteenth Century Americans
Intelligence Tests and Questionnaires, Vintage of 1860
Doctresses," "Authoresses," and Others
Picturesque Town Names in America
THIS pertinent query concerning the choice of names of towns in the United States occurs in an entertaining article American Town Names by Rush C. Faris in the Chautauquan for September, 1894, pages 723-6. Inasmuch as making governments and building towns are the natural employments of the migratory Yankee, ' one need not be surprised by this choice of town names from the world of politics. But not all the nomenclature has so obvious a derivation
Negro Patois and Its Humor
No one ever heard negro patois for first time without laughing, wrote N. S. Dodge in Appleton's Journal sixty years ago.' His analysis of humor residing in this language used by former negro slaves in United States gives abundant evidence of ludicrous effect of idiom itself and of readiness of negro to see ludicrous in most serious situation. During Civil War, said he, the keenest wit, sharpest retorts, severest satire, and most amusing repartees…
Local Discolor
The Hired Girl to the Hired Man, Eighteen Seventy
Prairie Schooner Slogans
HE Lore of the Lizzie Label in AMERICAN SPEECH for December, 1930,1 calls to the mind of anyone familiar with literature of the American West the slogans or mottoes painted on the prairie schooners of the emigrants-home-seekers or gold-seekers. The list I offer is brief, including only those which I came upon in several months' miscellaneous reading. Unfortunately it did not occur to me, when I was reading a number of journals of Western travel s…
Waddies" and "Hoboes" of the Old West
OME interesting notes on pioneer Nebraska terms are given in Lyrics of the Lariat, written by N. K. Griggs, a resident of Beatrice, Nebraska, from the 'sixties through the 'nineties.' A copy of his little book, published in 1893 by Fleming H. Revell of Chicago, recently came into my possession. Cowboy, the first lyric in the collection, celebrates a dying cowboy or waddy. The author evidently had the familiar Dying Cowboy of Western tradition in …
Squaw Patch, Squaw Corn, Calico Corn, Yankee Corn, Tea Wheat, Sandy Wheat
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Professor' or 'Professional
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