Word: inglish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formers," proclaimed the Daily Express, "ar welcum to Docter Folics nu Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
...secondary school is facing a crisis and must meet the concrete needs of the changing social scene or its functions will be usurped by other agencies, according to Professor Paul R. Mort of Columbia University, who gave the Inglish Lecture on Secondary Education last night...
Quite a few get printed by hook or by crook; the Harvard Press publishes the Annual Inglish Lectures, while Law School addresses appear in the Harvard Law Review. But even through these channels not enough lectures become available for popular consumption. All too many talks, discussions, forums, symposiums, and conferences flash briefly in the scholastic skies, and then disappear into the "unknown bourne...