This name was not a Yankee vulgarism, but a well-known old English term. |
His verses are too good to be spoiled by what began as a vulgarism. |
Oddly, in British English it is not these days a vulgarism, or at least only a very mild one. |
There are gradations in awkwardness and vulgarism, as there are in everything else. |
Not until the 1980s, in the pages of the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, did the age-old vulgarism quietly appear in a Merriam lexicon. |
They are also called bivalves bi the unlearned, but this iz a vulgarism. |