[14] The Middle American, American Magazine, March, 1907.
[15] Cf. White: Every-Day English, p. 367 et seq.
[16] Cf. Sweet: New English Grammar, vol. i, p. 5.
[17] Dr. Charters' report appears as Vol. XVI, No. 2, University of Missouri Bulletin, Education Series No. 9, Jan., 1915. He was aided in his inquiry by Edith Miller, teacher of English in one of the St. Louis high-schools.
[18] You Know Me Al: New York, 1916.
[19] Saturday Evening Post, July 11, 1914.
[20] Bin is the correct American pronunciation. Bean, as we have seen, is the English. But I have often found ben, rhyming with pen, in such phrases as "I ben there."
[21] See p. 209.
[22] Seldom used. Get is used in the place of it, as in "I am getting old" and "he got sick."
[23] Burned, with a distinct d-sound, is almost unknown in American. See p. 201.