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

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From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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by: Ross Clark - Wed, 6 Mar 2024 20:57 UTC

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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by: Adam Funk - Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:00 UTC

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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Subject	Author
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) died (6-3-1867)	Ross Clark
Re: Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) died (6-3-1867)	Adam Funk