.....other words seemed self-explanatory, and I'm sure that others would be clear in context.
And that, madam, is the way Nebraska's greatest writer, Mari Sandoz, wrote.
One of the oddities is that while the eastern establishment elites of Boston and New York City claimed her "Nebraska Sandhills English" was too "strange," too "alien," for the average American reader (later of course proved nonsense), her books were top sellers in, of all places, England.
If the English--an entirely different sort of world, remember--could understand Mari Sandoz, I'm flummoxed as to why all these eastern brains couldn't too.
Snobbishness really retards the intellect.
