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Show from the patois of the pirates of the Spanish Main. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Idioms Used to Build Up English Language A savage tribe in Tierra del Fuego has a vocabulary of 30,000 words and are the only savages in the world so richly supplied. We might borrow a few and they'd never be missed. We thus appropriated "hooch" from the Alaska Indians and have much enjoyed en-joyed using It; that is, using the word. Hooch Is a phonetic joy. It has that wild and slightly vulgar sound that seems to fit a crude intoxicant. intox-icant. English-speaking peoples are quick to pick up words odd to the ears from their neighbors, giving them a twist that may make their utterance ut-terance more or less comic. "Hoose-gow," "Hoose-gow," made over from the Spanish "huskado," provokes a laugh. The English In India soon appropriated "ioot" ; and "bulldoze" arose out of the svtfamps of Louisiana, where It was for long a neglected verb derived de-rived from the French. Other terms that spring Into being In the underworld under-world in time get fairly Into good society by succeeding gradations and there are now In good standing some |