Music Halls and Theatres
I have already mentioned the music-hall in connection with wrestling, A short section might here be appropriated to the ‘halls’ as foci of linguistic infection. Sometimes they may originate, at others they serve merely to drive the new expressions home. C
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SPEECH RECORD BY
w. E. COLLINSON
PROFESSOR OF GERMAN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
1927 Springer Fadnnedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Softrover reprint of the hardcover lst edition 1927
ISBN 978-3-663-15622-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-663-16196-7
ISBN 978-3-663-16196-7 (eBook)
PREFACE This book is written primarily for foreign students and teachers of English. That purpose governs the whole presentment and organization of the material and the type of explanation offered. To my own fellowcountrymen it may, at the highest reckoning, offer a means of bringing to the surface hidden memories of curious and amusing words. Probably it brings them little that is new, but it may stimulate them to seek out and regroup their own linguistic experiences. In fifty years' time the work might even claim the attention of the English philologist, whom it will provide with a certain amount of dated material for his historical inductions. For the present its mission is more humble and more practical. The first idea that such a collection as the present might not be unwelcome, lowe to Professor Jespersen~ whose kindness in looking through the first draft and suggesting improvements I acknowledge with deep gratitude. Mr. Bradley and Mr. Hutton, both of the Liverpool University Library, have unselfishly given me the benefit of their sharp eyes and wide reading; a number of their proposed emendations and additions have been gratefully embodied. My special thanks are due to Dr. Hittmair of the University of Innsbruck, whose encouragement and ungrudging help have throughout been of the greatest value to me. Finally I feel I must express my gratitude to the firm of Teubner for its care in preparing my MS. for publication and in particular to Dr. Ehlers for his generosity in enabling me to supplement my section on war-words by drawing upon his well-known Greifswald dissertation. a*
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Preface
As an Englishman, I am naturally gratified at the keen interest now taken in English Kulturpsychologie in the German schools. I hope I may not be thought presumptuous if I warn my readers against hasty generalizations as to our characteristics from the evidence of our language. Times are changing and some things taken as typical of us may cease to be so long before the abandonment of the linguistic forms which seem to express those typical aspects. However, I must let the material speak for itself. I like to regard this work as a debt of gratitude I am paying my German teachers and colleagues for the personal kindness I have always received from them and for the inspiration derived from their patient, thoughtful and courageous work in the philological field.
w. E. COLLINSON
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OF CONTENTS.
Preface. . . . Introduction Childhood. • . Nursery Rhymes. Children's Games. Superstitions • . Early Boyhood . . . . Preparatory School. Dulwich College • . • . . Influences during Adolescence . Card-games • . . . . . . Cycling. • . . . . . • . Various Games and Sports Influence of Books. • • . 'John Bull' and the Church Hobbies . . . . . Some English dishes The Do
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