Among the archaisms retained were allow, guess, and reckon, all used in a sense which had become obsolete in england. coinages included lightning rod, log cabin, hired hand, and cotton gin. borrowed words like boss and levee were also americanisms, as were fork for river branch, spell for time or while, and thomas jefferson's 1787 coinage, belittle. a list compiled in 1781 showed mad for angry, to take in and to bamboozle for to swindle, and a heavy use of ain't and other contractions. common grammatical errors (lay for lie, knowed for knew) and mispronunciations (winder for window) were also included. english critics labeled american loan words and coinages as barbarisms. look up barbarism in your dictionary. what are some words in the preceding paragraph that still qualify as barbarisms? ain't allow boss knowed levee lightning rod winder

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.