Crossword-Solution: YANKEEISMS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

CHAPTER III Aspect of Port Lyttelton--Ascent of Hill behind it--View--Christ Church- -Yankeeisms--Return to Port Lyttelton and Ship--Phormium Tenax--Visit to a Farm--Moa Bones.

Westlake's house--in a temper! For some one had imprudently talked of "Yankeeisms," perhaps with some "superior" intonation.

Otherwise you would realize that most of what you call 'Yankeeisms' are merely good old English which you have thrown away." Afterward, I find records of talks with him at Russell Square, then of Mrs.

Those who have been to the States like an opportunity to speak English, but they are not very strong at it, and it is more than tinged with Yankeeisms.

American though he be--and, but for occasional slight yankeeisms in his style, we might have doubted even that fact--he has evidently much more sympathy with his cousin John Bull than with his country's old allies, the French, whom he freely admits to be a clever and gallant nation, whilst he broadly hints that their valour is not likely to be displayed to advantage on the water.