8. Names of American things.
9. Individualisms.
10. Doubtful and miscellaneous.
All words and phrases that could by the largest and most liberal use of the term be called Americanisms may be properly ranked in one of these classes.
Spelling Exercises
The following short sentence was dictated by the late Lord Palmerston to eleven Cabinet ministers, not one of whom, it is said, spelled it correctly:
“It is disagreeable to witness the embarrassment of a harassed pedler gauging the symmetry of a peeled potato.”
Lord Cecil, in the House of Commons, quoted the following lines, which he said were given as a dictation exercise by an assistant commissioner to the children of a school in Ipswich:
“While hewing yew Hugh lost his ewe, and put it in the Hue and Cry.
To name its face’s dusky hues