. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . or substantives, are the namesbelonging to individuals: as William, Birmingham. These are sometimes converted into nicknames,or f/nproper names: as Bill, Brummagem. Common names, or substantives, denote kindscontaining many sorts, or sorts containing manyindividuals under them : as brute, beast, bumpkin,cherub, infant, goblin, &c. Proper names, when an article is prefixed tothem, are employed as common names: as, Theythought him a perfect CI tester field; he quite asto-nished the Broions Common names, on the
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . or substantives, are the namesbelonging to individuals: as William, Birmingham. These are sometimes converted into nicknames,or f/nproper names: as Bill, Brummagem. Common names, or substantives, denote kindscontaining many sorts, or sorts containing manyindividuals under them : as brute, beast, bumpkin,cherub, infant, goblin, &c. Proper names, when an article is prefixed tothem, are employed as common names: as, Theythought him a perfect CI tester field; he quite asto-nished the Broions Common names, on the other hand, are made todenote individuals, by the addition of articles orpronouns: as, There was a little man, and he had a little gun.« That boy will be the death of me ! 48 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Substantives are considered according to gender, number, and case; they are all of the third person when spoken of^ and of the second when spoken to: as, Matilda, fairest maid, who art In countless bumpers toasted, O let thy pity baste the heart Thy fatal charms have roasted !. ETYMOLOGY. 49 SECTION II. OF GENDER. The distinction between nouns with regard tosex is called Gender. There are three genders;the Masculine, the Feminine, and the Neuter. The masculine gender belongs to animals of themale kind: as, a fop, a jackass, a boar, a poet,a lion. The feminine gender is peculiar to animals ofthe female kind: as, a poetess, a lioness, a goose. The neuter gender is that of objects which areneither males nor females: as, a toast, a tankard,a pot, a pipe, a pudding, a pie, a sausage, a roll, amuffin, a crumpet, a puff, a cheesecake, a bun, anapricot, an orange, a lollipop, a cream, an ice, ajelly, &c. &c. &c. We might go on to enumerate an infinity of ob-jects of the neuter gender, of all sorts and kinds;but in the selection of the foregoing examples wehave been guided by two considerations :— 1. The desire of exciting agreeable emotions inthe mind of the reader. 2. The wish to ill
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