Re: about WIGWAM and TEEPEE and Americanisms in AR's works

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Posted by Terence McManus on June 17, 1999 at 04:21:22 from 203.85.141.209:

In Reply to: Re: about WIGWAM and TEEPEE posted by Edwin M. Kiser on June 16, 1999 at 13:08:21:

When I were a boy, in the '50s, we English lads always refered to those pointy tents redskins lived in as WIGWAMS. So I seem to remember did the toy shops that sold play tents for use in the back garden (yard in US usage?).
When reading (refered to in the lit. pages) I was surprised that they started fires with twigs arranged like a hut. Only later did I read SD and learn that a charcoal burner's hut looked like a wigwam and I guessed that this was what was intended in Bevis.
On the subject of Americanisms in AR's works; in TPATM Timothy calls Dick and Dot "partners" and uses other phrases (although I can't recall which) that made me think that he might be American.
In PP the word GULCH is one with an American feel.
Is AR reflecting the influence of American films and western novels on British English usage in the 1930s?


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