Word: good
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...Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte...
...language used furthers the writer's intended effect, it is good; so far as it fails to further that effect, it is bad, no matter how 'correct...
...English is not just good, it is good in a particular place...
...have often had the thought that for the president of the university it would be a good thing if we got a man who was a teacher instead of a man who was a politician." Then the Governor (who had been ribbed by the university's funnypaper for his ungrammatical utterances) added: "It's hard for a man who hasn't had an education to cross swords with a great and learned man as he is. I have my ideas about education...
With a Heil-dominated, Republican Board of Regents almost a certainty, Wisconsin wondered last week how soon, if at all, the Governor would carry out his threat. President Dykstra is popular, has won public confidence as a good educator and administrator. Even the bulk of the Republican legislative majority opposes the president's removal, but the Governor could wait until the Legislature adjourns and then do as he pleased. Day after the Assembly passed the bill, the Governor conferred for an hour with ousted President Glenn Frank, who flatly assured a reporter: "Let me say, once...