Sporting Days and Sporting Ways (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 04 հլս, 2015 թ. - 358 էջ Excerpt from Sporting Days and Sporting Ways Was it like gunpowder, Admiral 3 said the malicious counsel. The whole court saw the point, and amidst general laughter the witness retreated to his place. Not only the life, but the dress and even the language of Londoners differed very much from What they are to-day. For a considerable period the curious habit of mispronouncing W was widely spread amongst all sections of the population except the aristocracy. This lasted well into the middle of the century, as Dickens's novels show. The mispronunciation is well illustrated by the following dialogue - a short conversation between a pursy liveryman and his servant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |