Let us then bow to him, as the inventor, par excellence, of our era.
This is the youth of whom I have just been speaking to you.
The writers of the comedies and farces in those days must have lived in the streets, and written their plays in the public-houses, so filled are they with vulgarisms and unauthorised words.
They have seldom been written or used in books, and simply as vulgarisms have they reached our time.
Instances continually occur now-a-days of street vulgarismsascending to the drawing-rooms of respectable society.
It need scarcely be said that these expressions are vulgarisms of the worst type.
In vulgarismslike I be tired, or if I am tired, one mood is used instead of another.
In vulgarisms like I goes, I is, one person is used instead of another.
In vulgarismslike I give for I gave, one tense is used for another.
You will, perhaps, say that the amusement afforded to others by the occasional adoption of these mirth-provoking vulgarisms affords an apology for their use; and that would be a legitimate excuse, did the matter end there.
Vocabularies of vulgarisms are of interest for the archaisms both of language and pronunciation which we find in them.
That contained many words which were rather vulgarisms than provincialisms, and more properly English than American.
It is useless to dismiss the growing peculiarities of the American vocabulary and of grammar and syntax in the common speech as vulgarisms beneath serious notice.
Bache, Richard Meade: Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech, 2nd ed.
Such vulgarisms have a way of intrenching themselves, and gathering dignity as they grow familiar.
Bache: Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech; Phila.
Vide/ his Vulgarismsand Other Errors of Speech, 2nd ed.
Most of the other authorities of the time were also against Marsh--for example, Richard Meade Bache (See his Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech, p.
They have seldom been written or used in books, and it is simply asvulgarisms that they have reached us.
The writers of the comedies and farces in those days must have lived in the streets, and written their plays in the public-houses, so filled are they with vulgarisms and unauthorized words.
Instances continually occur nowadays of street vulgarisms ascending to the drawing-rooms of respectable society.
Obsolete words would be permissible in poetry or in historical novels, technical words permissible in technical writing, and even vulgarisms and provincialisms permissible in dialect stories.
Vulgarisms are words whose use shows vulgarity or ignorance.
Few vulgarisms are equally offensive, and none could be more so.
Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to.
By the excessive vulgarisms so plentiful in these volumes, one might suppose the writer had never stirred out of the parish of St. Giles.
This is the language of the illiterate, and it should be avoided; for vulgarisms are not reputable.
Let me next beg you to shun all the ungrammatical vulgarisms which are often heard, but which never fail to grate harshly on a well-tuned ear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vulgarisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
