Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he had graduated from Carlisle in 1879 and that he had visited Mayor LaGuardia's city "long time ago." He still remembered the State of Liberty and he fought in his tribe's last battle against the white men. After hearing all this in perfectly good English, I was somewhat puzzled to observe Wolf Tooth using an interpreter during the ensuing adoption ceremony that made the Mayor Chief Rising Cloud...
...Majesty, who speaks perfect English, does not consider this his "home," reserves that intimate title for the Villa Savoia, standing amid spreading Roman gardens...
...group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most of the Peruvian Indians. Although it has no literature, it is written down in a few hieroglyphics on prehistoric buildings, will be taught to scholars as a means of exploring the unknown history of ancient Peru...
...rugged internationalist, Nicholas Murray Butler. Included among the articles on the economic and cultural advantages of peace and democracy were pertinent observations about the efficiency of the U. S. air force, Britain's navy, France's army. Monde Libre will appear quarterly in French and English...
...responsibility should be placed for this decline in what was formerly the backbone of education is difficult to determine. Certainly some of it can be attributed to "the tempo of modern life" with its insistence on immediate, practical, marketable qualities. The rapid shift in the last decade from English as the most popular field, through Economics during the great Depression, and now to Government since we have lost faith in unhampered economic forces as a social panacea, illustrates the variable nature of students' desires...