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... Examples : ôlder man ; codgy kimmie ( old man ) . Tertiary , commonly in fixed phrases of compound nouns . / Example : tire tool ; blue tail ( rattlesnake ) . Weak or " zero " stress . Syllables which may be marked with this graph are ...
... Examples : ôlder man ; codgy kimmie ( old man ) . Tertiary , commonly in fixed phrases of compound nouns . / Example : tire tool ; blue tail ( rattlesnake ) . Weak or " zero " stress . Syllables which may be marked with this graph are ...
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... example , an Anderson Valley male is a beeson - tree man ; two would be beeson - tree men . Similarly a cow- boy is a barney man ; two cowboys are barney men . The internal change pattern of the original English component is thus ...
... example , an Anderson Valley male is a beeson - tree man ; two would be beeson - tree men . Similarly a cow- boy is a barney man ; two cowboys are barney men . The internal change pattern of the original English component is thus ...
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... Examples : deeble ( castrate ) and neebles ( a castrated animal ) . [ Phonemic reshaping in unstressed posi- tions . ] -ble ( -bŭl ) / -bǝl / Combining form of bahl ( good ) . Example : neeble ( no good ) . [ Phonemic reshaping in ...
... Examples : deeble ( castrate ) and neebles ( a castrated animal ) . [ Phonemic reshaping in unstressed posi- tions . ] -ble ( -bŭl ) / -bǝl / Combining form of bahl ( good ) . Example : neeble ( no good ) . [ Phonemic reshaping in ...
Contents
Preface vii | 3 |
Rise and Recession Research and Revival | 20 |
An American English Jargon | 43 |
Copyright | |
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Boontling: an American Lingo: With a Dictionary of Boontling Charles C. Adams No preview available - 1971 |
Common terms and phrases
abbreviation adjective suffix allomorphs alluded allusion American English American Slang analogy Anderson Creek Anderson Valley Anecdotal apparently bahl ball base became Bell Valley bill nunn Bluejay boarp booker Boonter Boonter named Boontling Boontling words Boonville boshe California called chapport charlie coast Combination common compounds consonant croppy dance deer denoted derived Dissie drinker early early-day example female Functional shift gormin haireem harpin heese horner Indian informants kimmie krik language lexical ling lingo terms lingo word linguistic male McGimsey meaning Mendocino Mendocino County modifier moldune moshe Navarro Navarro River nemic reshaping nickname nonch nook noun suffix original patterns pejorative person Philo Phonemically reshaped Pomo pudendum reference region Russian River Valley Scottish seertle sexual sexual intercourse sheep sneeble speakers standard English stress taboo taish tidrick Ukiah Ukiah Road usually valley residents variant verb Virginia Folk-Speech vocabulary voiceless vowel woman Wordlist