for a preference or choice, belongs to the towns rather than to the country. _Go like_, in the sense of imitation, as “_go like_ a rooster,” is reported from both Maine and Indiana; and _foot-loose_, meaning free and untrammelled, observed in Georgia, is used in the towns, at least, of Indiana. The natural disposition of Americans to exaggerate led to the creation by the Southeastern element in Indiana population of _bodaciously_,[21] a corruption of audaciously; and to the employment of _powerful_, indiscriminately with _big_ or _little_, as a particularly emphatic superlative. Curiously enough _powerful_, which is usually identified with the earlier generations of the Southwest, is reported also from Eastern Massachusetts.[22] _Sarcumstansis_ for _circumstances_, _b’ar_ for _bear_, and _thar_ for _there_ reached Indiana through Kentucky, and are now rarely heard. Dr. Eggleston employs the broad _a_ in “The Graysons,” where one character says _bar_ while another pronounces the word correctly, explaining that words are not always pronounced the same in a dialect--an observation that has also been made by Mr. Riley. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, whose unamiable novel, “From Dawn to Daylight,” is a dreary picture of Indiana life, gives a few interesting usages; as _a right smart chance of money_, _heap of plunder_, _sight stronger_, _proper hard_, showing that her acquaintance was principally with the Southern element, which she had known at Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis. _Plunder_, as a synonym for baggage, seems to be largely Southern and Western, and was probably derived from the Pennsylvania Germans. The insolent intrusiveness of dialect is illustrated by the appearance of the word in its colloquial sense in the first chapter of General Wallace’s “Prince of India.” Dr. Eggleston in “The Graysons” gives _weth_ for _with_, _air_ for _are_, _thes_ for _just_, _sher’f_ for _sheriff_, and _yer’s_ for _here is_. Indianians usually pronounce the name of their State correctly, though the final vowel sometimes becomes _y_. Benjamin S. Parker remembers that in the early days pioneers sometimes said _Injuns_, _Injiana_, and _immejut_; but these usages are obsolete in the State.[23] Mr. Riley frequently uses _miled_ (mile), and yet the word is somewhat similarly spoken on Nantucket, _maild_. _Ornery_, a vulgar form of ordinary, seems to be generally used, and has been observed in the Middle States as well as in Indiana and Kentucky. The injunction _mind out_, which is used in Kentucky in such admonitions as “_mind out_ what you are doing,” becomes _watch out_ in Indiana. _Wrench_ for _rinse_, used in the States contiguous to the Ohio, is _rense_ in New England. _Critter_ for _horse_ is still heard in parts of rural Indiana, which derived population through Kentucky, where the same usage is noted. _Fruit_, as applied to stewed apples (apple sauce) only, is a curious limitation of the noun, heard among old-fashioned people of Southern origin in Indiana.