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This is a pity, for his caustic tone and shallow glosses undermine what is a bold and worthy effort: to write a readable one-volume history of the American people.
These days, when all editions of Burns's poems are annotated, with glosses for any “foreign” words, allowing such Scotticisms to occupy valuable space in general dictionaries is not considered economical, and only those likely to appear in crossword puzzles are included.
Dr. Haugen declared in an article, The Rune Stones of Spirit Pond, Maine, in Man in the Northeast , No. 4, 1972, p. 77 that the stones were modern artifacts, which Chapman ruefully glosses as fakes.
From his commentary it is clear that Thirty-five, when compiling his glossary, had access to a number of books, including Partridge's Slang To-day and Yesterday and the 1945 edition of The Australian Language . His more expansive glosses focus primarily on lexicographical matters, including some etymological speculation.
At hung higher than Gilderoy's kite the author glosses kite as `body'; it is actually a word for `belly.