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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 |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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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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1859.34 Lexicographer: "Base Ball" is English!"
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