Creator
James Brown
Title
An American Grammar.
Coverage
N.Y.
Publisher
Francis Adancourt
Date
1820
Description
Brown (1798?–1865?) opened an “American Grammar Academy” in Philadelphia and wrote a series of grammars that “differed much from all others.” To say the least. In this one, he posited 33 distinct parts of speech. By 1836, he had retreated to 6 and become a madcap neologist writing like this: “When there is no nepoeclide understood, the nepoecorm with which the poeclade does not gnomefy, gives a new mono.” No kidding.
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