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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1859
|Year Number=34
|Headline=Lexicographer:  "Base Ball" is English!
|Headline=Lexicographer:  "Base Ball" is English!
|Year=1859
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>"BASE. A game of ball much played in America, so called from the three <i>bases</i> or stations used in it. That the game and its name are both English is evident from . . . Halliwell's <u>Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words</u>: '<i>Base-ball.</i> A country game mentioned in <u>Moor's Suffolk Words</u>, p. 238'." [See #1823.2 - Moor - and #1847.6 - Halliwell above.]</p>
|Location=New England,
<p>From John Russell Bartlett, <u>Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States</u>, (second edition; Little, Brown and Company; Boston, 1859), page 24. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008.  David adds: "This attestation of baseball's English roots predates by one year Chadwick's assertion of same, and carries the added significance of coming from a distinguished American lexicographer."</p>
|Country=United States
|State=MA
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>"BASE. A game of ball much played in America, so called from the three <em>bases</em> or stations used in it. That the game and its name are both English is evident from . . . Halliwell's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words</span>: '<em>Base-ball.</em> A country game mentioned in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moor's Suffolk Words</span>, p. 238'." [See #1823.2 - Moor - and #1847.6 - Halliwell above.]</p>
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|Sources=<p>From John Russell Bartlett,&nbsp;<span>Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States</span>, (second edition; Little, Brown and Company; Boston, 1859), page 24.&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>This attestation of baseball's English roots predates by one year Chadwick's assertion of same, and carries the added significance of coming from a distinguished American lexicographer.</p>
|Submitted by=David Block
|Submission Note=2/27/2008
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=34
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=42.4072107, -71.3824374
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Lexicographer: "Base Ball" is English!

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Location New England
City/State/Country: MA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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"BASE. A game of ball much played in America, so called from the three bases or stations used in it. That the game and its name are both English is evident from . . . Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words: 'Base-ball. A country game mentioned in Moor's Suffolk Words, p. 238'." [See #1823.2 - Moor - and #1847.6 - Halliwell above.]

 

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From John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, (second edition; Little, Brown and Company; Boston, 1859), page 24. 

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This attestation of baseball's English roots predates by one year Chadwick's assertion of same, and carries the added significance of coming from a distinguished American lexicographer.

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