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A Dictionary of Wellerisms
There are many things about modern life--air conditioning (in particular), electricity, indoor plumbing, supermarkets--that make me grateful to be living in the latter half of the 20th century and not back in the antediluvian or “good old” days so often pined for, and one of them is the knowledge (gained from the Introduction) that American newspapers and magazines published numerous short lists of wellerisms during the 19th century.
In my role as Editor, I must be scholarly and democratic, so I shall be happy to publish in a future issue of VERBATIM a rebuttal either from the editors of Wellerisms or from a champion of their cause.
Further on in the Preface one reads that “major collections of wellerisms in some of the European languages are readily available” and the implication that what we have here is representative of the “rich British and American materials.”
The Preface describes the book as “the first book-length collection of wellerisms in the English language”; unless reasoning man can find a way to put this information to good and useful purpose, it may well be the last.