Word: berrey
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Happily at work at Los Angeles City College studying U. S. colloquialisms is Pedagogue Lester V. Berrey. Last week in American Speech, a Columbia University Press quarterly, Mr. Berrey learnedly and approvingly discussed contemporarv U. S. journalists' efforts to combine old words into new ones for more exact shades of meaning. The practice, he pointed out, is at least as old and respectable as Shakespeare, who made the word rebuse from...
...Berrey did most of his research in Walter Winchell's column, Variety, Billboard, "cinemags," Reader's Digest, TIME, LIFE. Some nuggets...
...best, reports Mr. Berrey, was a magazine's typographical error: "The auto approached the coroner at 70 miles an hour...