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|Headline=Lexicographer: "Base Ball" is English! | |Headline=Lexicographer: "Base Ball" is English! | ||
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|Game=Base Ball, | |Location=New England, | ||
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|State=MA | |||
|Game=Base Ball, | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
|Text=<p>"BASE. A game of ball much played in America, so called from the three <em>bases</em> or stations used in it. That the game and its name are both English is evident from . . . Halliwell's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words</span>: '<em>Base-ball.</em> A country game mentioned in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moor's Suffolk Words</span>, p. 238'." [See #1823.2 - Moor - and #1847.6 - Halliwell above.]</p> | |Text=<p>"BASE. A game of ball much played in America, so called from the three <em>bases</em> or stations used in it. That the game and its name are both English is evident from . . . Halliwell's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words</span>: '<em>Base-ball.</em> A country game mentioned in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moor's Suffolk Words</span>, p. 238'." [See #1823.2 - Moor - and #1847.6 - Halliwell above.]</p> | ||
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Lexicographer: "Base Ball" is English!
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Location | New EnglandNew England |
City/State/Country: | MA, United States |
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Game | Base BallBase Ball |
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Text | "BASE. A game of ball much played in America, so called from the three bases or stations used in it. That the game and its name are both English is evident from . . . Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words: 'Base-ball. A country game mentioned in Moor's Suffolk Words, p. 238'." [See #1823.2 - Moor - and #1847.6 - Halliwell above.]
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Sources | From John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, (second edition; Little, Brown and Company; Boston, 1859), page 24. |
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Comment | This attestation of baseball's English roots predates by one year Chadwick's assertion of same, and carries the added significance of coming from a distinguished American lexicographer. Edit with form to add a comment |
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Submitted by | David Block |
Submission Note | 2/27/2008 |
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