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| H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921. |
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| legal-holiday | bank-holiday |
| letter-box | pillar-box |
| letter-carrier | postman |
| locomotive engineer | engine-driver |
| long-distance-call | trunk-call |
| lumber | deals |
| lumber-yard | timber-yard |
| mad | angry |
| mantelpiece | chimney-piece |
| Methodist | Wesleyan |
| molasses | treacle |
| monkey-wrench | spanner |
| moving-picture-theatre | cinema, or picture-palace |
| necktie | tie |
| news-dealer | news-agent |
| newspaper-man | pressman, or journalist |
| notions | small-wares |
| oatmeal | porridge |
| officeholder | public-servant |
| orchestra (seats in a theatre) | stalls |
| outbuildings (farm) | offices |
| overcoat | great-coat |
| package | parcel |
| parlor | drawing-room |
| parlor-car | saloon-carriage |
| patrolman (police) | constable |
| pay-day | wage-day |
| peanut | monkey-nut |
| pen-point | nib |
| period (punctuation) | full-stop |
| pitcher | jug |
| plant (industrial) | works |
| poorhouse | workhouse |
| post-paid | post-free |
| potpie | pie |
| prepaid | carriage-paid |
| press (printing) | machine |
| program (of a meeting) | agenda |
| public-school | board-school |
| quotation-marks | inverted-commas |
| railroad | railway 1 |
| railroad-man | railway-servant |
| rails | line |
| rare (of meat) | underdone |
| receipts (in business) | takings |
| Rhine-wine | Hock |
| road-bed (railroad) | permanent-way |
| road-repairer | road-mender |
| roast | joint |
| roll (of films) | spool |
| roll-call | division |
| rooster | cock |
| round-trip-ticket | return-ticket |
| saleswoman | shop-assistant |
| saloon | public-house |
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| Note 1. Railway, of course, is sometimes used in the United States. But all the English dictionaries call railroad an Americanism. [back] |
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