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Title: English as she is spoke
or, A jest in sober earnest

Author: Jose da Fonseca
Pedro Carolino

Release Date: November 7, 2009 [EBook #30411]

Language: English

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English
As She is Spoke:

or

A Jest in Sober Earnest.

No. I.

The Parchment Paper Series.

_English As She is Spoke._

"EXCRUCIATINGLY FUNNY," says _The World_, is "English as she is
Spoke, or a Jest in Sober thought."

--

"EVERY one who loves a laugh," says _Fun_, "should either buy, beg,
borrow, or--we had almost said steal--this book; for in sober earnest
we aver that it is not given to every one to 'jest so.'"

English
As She is Spoke:

or

A Jest in Sober Earnest.

With an Introduction by

JAMES MILLINGTON.

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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.

1884.

* Introduction *

**

_FROM_ the time of Shakspere downwards, wits and authors innumerable
have made themselves and the public more or less merry at the expense
of the earlier efforts of the student of a strange tongue; but it has
been reserved to our own time for a _soi disant_ instructor to
perpetrate--at his own expense--the monstrous joke of publishing a
Guide to Conversation in a language of which it is only too evident
that every word is utterly strange to him. The Teutonic sage who
evolved the ideal portrait of an elephant from his "inner
consciousness" was a commonplace, matter-of fact person compared with
the daring visionary who conjures up a complete system of language
from the same fertile but untrustworthy source. The piquancy of
Senhor Pedro Carolino's _New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese
and English_ is enhanced by the evident _bona fides_ and careful
compilation of "the little book," or as Pedro himself gravely
expresses it, "for the care what we wrote him, and for her
typographical correction."

In short, the _New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and
English_ was writte