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  • Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) died (6-3-1867)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 7 09:57:40 2024
    Born 1834. Not a long life. Died of TB.
    American journalist/humorist, wrote as "Artemus Ward",
    'an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense"' (Wiki)

    Very famous in his day (Abraham Lincoln was a fan), for both writings
    and public performances. "America's first stand-up comedian" (Wiki)

    Crystal quotes a couple of paragraphs from a piece he wrote for _Punch_
    in 1866 about visiting the British Museum.
    The "illiterate rube" aspect of the character is regularly marked by
    deviant spellings. In this extract we have:

    gorillers
    Afriky
    beins
    altho'
    stummuck
    goin
    lookin
    mummys
    vasis
    rayther
    antiquitys
    Mooseum
    erthen
    uncertin
    'zackly
    determin

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Farrar_Browne

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  • From Adam Funk@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Thu Mar 7 16:00:26 2024
    On 2024-03-06, Ross Clark wrote:

    Born 1834. Not a long life. Died of TB.
    American journalist/humorist, wrote as "Artemus Ward",
    'an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense"' (Wiki)

    Very famous in his day (Abraham Lincoln was a fan), for both writings
    and public performances. "America's first stand-up comedian" (Wiki)

    Crystal quotes a couple of paragraphs from a piece he wrote for _Punch_
    in 1866 about visiting the British Museum.
    The "illiterate rube" aspect of the character is regularly marked by
    deviant spellings. In this extract we have:

    gorillers
    Afriky
    beins
    altho'
    stummuck
    goin
    lookin
    mummys
    vasis
    rayther
    antiquitys
    Mooseum

    Well, I'd certainly visit a museum about Alces alces.


    erthen
    uncertin
    'zackly
    determin

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Farrar_Browne

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