Citations:'Arryese

English citations of 'Arryese

• 1892 December 22, “[Review of Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature]”, in The Nation, volume 55, number 1434, New York: Evening Post Pub. Co., →ISSN, page 476:

  The ability to write the English language is certainly not one of them, for a worse style is seldom met with, and many sentences might pass for specimens of "English as she is wrote," or of 'Arryese, as the reader may elect.

• 1894, Cornelis Stoffel, Studies in English, Written and Spoken, Zutphen: W. J. Thieme & Co., →OCLC, page 268:

  There are a few more vulgar phrases, verbs and adjectives, expressive of being 'down on one's luck', or of an undesirable state of things in general, not represented in our texts, but occasionally employed in 'Arryese.

• 1917, H. Logeman, “Some notes on Romeo and Juliet”, in Neophilologus, volume 2, Groningen: J. B. Wolters, →ISSN, page 49:

  But compare a construction like the following: "which he who does not understand needs not lament his ignorance," which shows that ungrammatical constructions are not ipso facto "unworthy" of great men! Of course many a reader may condemn my parallel too as pure 'Arryese. I would however have him remember that the incriminated sentence came from the pen of Dr. Samuel Johnson […]

• 1933, Gösta Langenfelt, Select Studies in Colloquial English of the Late Middle Ages, Lund: H. Ohlsson, →OCLC, page xx:

  Stoffel (Studies in English, p. 192 ff.) is therefore quite right in pointing out similarities between [Middle English] grammar and that of 'Arryese', which, owing to its social status, does not worry about syntactical rules laid down by learned grammarians.