L W Merryweather
Biographic Data
| ID | 5382452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L W Merryweather |
| GIVEN NAMES | L W |
| FAMILY NAME | Merryweather |
| SIGNATURE | MERRYWEATHER L W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Argot of an Orphans' Home
RECENTLY I worked for a year on the campus of a large home for orphans. The presence of over a thousand inmates, with adults in the ratio of about one to ten, resulted in the children's forming their own public opinion and to some extent, their own slang and language customs. Their pronunciation, for example, is unusually homogeneous. That of children from regions with distinct speech peculiarities soon conforms almost entirely to the pronunciati…
Hell in American Speech
WE have come far from the day when bold people spoke of the infernal realm as Hades, timid ones, as the other place, and Mark Twain invented the facetious euphemism hot as the hereafter. Today hell fills so large a place in the American vulgate that it will probably be worn out in a few years more, and will become obsolescent. Clerical circles should take it upon themselves, as a public duty, to invest some other theological term with a shudderin…
Hell in American Speech
WE have come far from the day when bold people spoke of the infernal realm as Hades, timid ones, as the other place, and Mark Twain invented the facetious euphemism hot as the hereafter. Today hell fills so large a place in the American vulgate that it will probably be worn out in a few years more, and will become obsolescent. Clerical circles should take it upon themselves, as a public duty, to invest some other theological term with a shudderin…
Hell in American Speech
WE have come far from the day when bold people spoke of the infernal realm as Hades, timid ones, as the other place, and Mark Twain invented the facetious euphemism hot as the hereafter. Today hell fills so large a place in the American vulgate that it will probably be worn out in a few years more, and will become obsolescent. Clerical circles should take it upon themselves, as a public duty, to invest some other theological term with a shudderin…
The Argot of an Orphans' Home
RECENTLY I worked for a year on the campus of a large home for orphans. The presence of over a thousand inmates, with adults in the ratio of about one to ten, resulted in the children's forming their own public opinion and to some extent, their own slang and language customs. Their pronunciation, for example, is unusually homogeneous. That of children from regions with distinct speech peculiarities soon conforms almost entirely to the pronunciati…
American Literature and Humor Studies (1 work) · History (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Multilingual Education and Policy (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (1 work) · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy (1 work)