English as She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino (the snowy day read aloud .txt) 📕

the original work is omitted, and only a sufficient number of the English extracts are culled to enable the reader to form a just idea of the unintentionally humorous style that an author may fall into who attempts to follow the intricacies of “English as she is spoke” by the aid of a French dictionary and a phrasebook.

It is to be trusted the eccentric “Guide” to which this short sketch is intended to serve as Introduction⁠—and, so far as may be, elucidation⁠—is not a fair specimen of Portuguese or Brazilian educational literature; if such be the case the schoolmaster is indeed “abroad,” and one may justly fear that his instruction⁠—to quote once more the Preface⁠—“only will be for to accustom the Portuguese pupils, or foreign, to speak very bad any of the mentioned idioms.”

James Millington

Author’s Preface

A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious portuguese and brazilian Youth; and also to persons of others nations, that wish to know the portuguese language. We sought all we may do, to correct that want, composing and divising the present little work in two parts. The first includes a greatest vocabulary proper names by alphabetical order; and the second forty three Dialogues adapted to the usual precisions of the life. For that reason we did put, with a scrupulous exactness, a great variety own expressions to english and portuguese idioms; without to attach us selves (as make some others) almost at a literal translation; translation what only will be for to accustom the portuguese pupils, or-foreign, to speak very bad any of the mentioned idioms.

We were increasing this second edition with a phraseology, in the first part, and some familiar letters, anecdotes, idiotisms, proverbs, and to second a coin’s index.

The Works which we were confering for this labour, fond use us for nothing; but those what were publishing to Portugal, or out, they were almost all composed for some foreign, or for some national little acquainted in the spirit of both languages. It was resulting from that corelessness to rest these Works fill of imperfections, and anomalies of style; in spite of the infinite typographical faults which some times, invert the sense of the periods. It increase not to contain any of those Works the figured pronunciation of the english words, nor the prosodical accent in the portuguese; indispensable object whom wish to speak the english and portuguese languages correctly.

We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptation of the studious persons, and especially of the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly.

English as She Is Spoke Or, A Jest in Sober Earnest

Of the Man

The Brain The inferior lip The brains The superior lip The fat of the leg The marrow The ham The reins

Defects of the body

A blind A left handed A lame An ugly A bald A squint-eyed A deaf

Degrees of kindred

The gossip The quater-grandfather The gossip mistress The quater-grandmother The nurse A guardian A relation An guardian An relation A widower An widow

Trades

Starch-maker Porter Barber Chinaman Coffeeman Founder Porkshop-keeper Grave-digger Cartwright Tradesman Tinker, a brasier Stockingmender Nailer Lochsmith

Objects of man

The boots The lining The buckles The clogs The buttons-holes The wig The buskins The morning-gown, night-gown

Woman objects

The busk The paint or disguise The sash The spindle The cornet The patches The pumps The skate

Servants

Coochmann Spendth Running footman Business-man Groome

Diseases

The apoplexy The megrime The scrofulas The whitlow The melancholy The rheumatisme The vomitory

Parties a Town

The butchery The low eating house The cause-way The obelis-ks The sink The prison, geol

Kitchen utensils

The skimming-dish The spark The potlid The fire The pothanger The smoke The spunge The clout The jack

Of the bed

The bed wood The feet’s bed The bed battom The pillar’s bed The head’s bed

For the table

Some knifes Some groceries Some crumb

Eatings

Some black pudding A little mine Some sugar-plum Hog fat Some wigs Some marchpanes A chitterling sausages An amelet A dainty-dishes A slice, steak A mutton shoulder Vegetables boiled to a pap

Seasonings

Some wing Some pinions Some cinnamon Some hog’slard Some oranges Some verjuice

Drinkings

Some orgeat Some paltry wine Some sirup or sirop

Quadruped’s beasts

Lamb Rocbuck Ass Dragon Shi ass Wild sow Ass-colt Lioness Ram, aries Dormouse

Birds

Becafico Heuth-cock Calander Whoop Stor Pea cock Yeung turkey Pinch Red-breast, a robin

Insects-reptiles

Asp, aspic Fly Morpion Butter fly Serpent

Fishes and shell-fishes

Calamary Large lobster Dorado Snail A sorte of fish Wolf Hedge hog Torpedo Sea-calf

Trees

Lote-tree lotos Service-tree Chest nut-tree Jujube-tree Linden-tree

Flowers

Anemony Mil-foils Blue-bottle Hink Turnsol

Hunting

Hunting dog Picker Relay dog Gun-powder Hound dog Priming-powder Hound’s fee Hunts man

Colours

White Gridelin Cray Musk Red

Metals and minerals

Starch Latten Cooper Plaster Vitriole

Common stones

Loadstones White lead Brick Gum-stone

Weights

Counterpoise An obole A pound an half A quater ounce

Games

Foot-ball Pile Bar Mall Gleek Even or non even Carousal Keel

Perfumes

Benzion Pomatum Perfume paw Storax

On the church

The sides of the nef The little cellal The holywater-pot The boby of the church

Solemn-feasts

The Deads-day The Vigil The Twelfth-Day The Visitation

Ecclesiastical dignities

Incumbent General of an order Canon Penitentiary Canoness Theologist Chanter, a clerk General curate

Chivalry orders

Black eagle Elephant Avis, advice Honour Legion Calatrava Saint Michaelmas Very-merit

Degrees

A cannoneer A general to galeries A vessel captain A great admiral A harbinger A king a lieutenant A parapet A quater master A army general A vice admiral’s ship

Military objects

The bait The fire pan An arquebuse A bomb ketch A bandoleer The military case A fusil, a gun

Music’s instruments

A flagelet A dreum A hurdy-gurdy

Chastisements

A fine To break upon Honourable fine To tear off the flesh To draw to four horses Familiar Phrases

Go to send for.

Have you say that?

Have you understand that he says?

At what purpose have say so?

Put your confidence at my.

At what o’clock dine him?

Apply you at the study during that you are young.

Dress your hairs.

Sing an area.

These apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.

How do you can it to deny?

Wax my shoes.

That is that I have think.

That are the dishes whose you must be and to abstain.

This meat ist not too over do.

This ink is white.

This room is filled of bugs.

This girl have a beauty edge.

It is a noise which to cleave the head.

This wood is fill of thief’s.

Tell me, it can one to know?

Give me some good milk newly get out.

To morrow hi shall be entirely (her master) or unoccupied.

She do not that to talk and to cackle.

Dry this wine.

He laughs at my nose, he jest by me.

He has spit in my coat.

He has me take out my hairs.

He does me some kicks.

He has scratch the face with hers nails.

He burns one’s self the brains.

He is valuable his weight’s gold.

He has the word for to laugh.

He do the devil at four.

He make to weep the room.

He was fighted in duel.

They fight one’s selfs together.

He do want to fall.

It must never to laugh of the unhappies.

He was wanting to be killed.

I am confused all yours civilities.

I am catched cold.

I not make what to coughand spit.

Never I have feeld a such heat

Till say-us?

Till hither.

I have put my stockings outward.

I have croped the candle.

I have