langwidge
English
Noun
langwidge (plural langwidges)
- Eye dialect spelling of language.
- 1891, Punch, Vol. 101, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:
- "Such langwidge," he says, "is unbecoming and beneath Me—leastways unless it is remembered in the wages."
- 1901, PT Ross, A Yeoman's Letters, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
- "Art thou weary, art thou langwidge?" he quoted after a reflective expectoration, which just missed my right foot.
- 1915, Captain WHL Watson, Adventures of a Despatch Rider, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
- The soldiers thought they were spies. "As speaking the langwidge," I asked him what the matter was.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, All-Story Cavalier Weekly:
- "Sich langwidge!" cried the girl, with a laugh, covering her ears with her palms.
- 1930, Roy Milton Iliff, In the Red, reprint edition, Kessinger, published 2005, →ISBN, page 99:
- Grandpa grunted—and belched again. "That old windbag! And his langwidge!"
- 2003, William Wymark Jacobs, Light Freights, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 25:
- … the boy ran up on deck and went aft to the skipper and complained of Bill's langwidge.
- 2005, James Edwin Miller, quoting Pound, 1922, T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 389:
- That is 19 pages, and let us say the longest poem in the English langwidge.
- 2009 Jun/Jul, Gary Jennings, “Sooner or Later or Never Never”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 116, number 6/7, page 171:
- But Pitjantjatjara, although it has four declensions and four conjugations, is alleged to be the simplest of all the bloody Australoid langwidges.
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