[74] The King's English, p. 322. See especially the quotation from Frederick Greenwood, the distinguished English journalist.
[75] Report of Edward J. Brundage, attorney-general of Illinois, on the East St. Louis massacre, Congressional Record, Jan. 7, 1918, p. 661.
[76] The King's English, op. cit.
[77] Oct. 1, 1864.
[78] At all, by the way, is often displaced by any or none, as in "he don't lover her any" and "it didn't hurt me none."
[79] See the bibliography for the publication of Drs. Read and Pound.
[80] The only book that I can find definitely devoted to American sounds is A Handbook of American Speech, by Calvin L. Lewis; Chicago, 1916. It has many demerits. For example, the author gives a z-sound to the s in venison (p. 52). This is surely not American.
[81] Maryland edition, July 18, 1914, p. 1.
[82] Cf. Lounsbury: The Standard of Pronunciation in English, p. 172 et seq.
[83] Stomp is used only in the sense of to stamp with the foot. One always stamps a letter. An analogue of stomp, accepted in correct English, is strop (e. g., razor-strop), from strap.