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...your April 30 report about Mr. Ivor Brown's [resurrected words] you gave the sample word "amygdaline" as a fitting epithet for ladies who are "almondlike" blondes...
These past months I have so wanted a word that a lady could use, that really said what I meant. Then these last weeks made it a must-and now I have it (your April 30 story on Ivor Brown's rescued words): Mr. Truman is a niffle.* It is wonderful...
...first, Ivor Brown, associate editor of the London Observer, thought of his hobby as nothing more than "easy, pleasant work that I could do in bed." From his midnight reading, he would jot down old and rare words whose color and flavor deserved rescue from oblivion. Later, he took to publishing his jottings, brought out six volumes in nine years. This week, with the U.S. publication of his latest two books, No Idle Words and Having the Last Word, in one volume (E. P. Dutton; $3), U.S. readers could go hunting for rescued relics to enrich their own speech. Samples...
...course of his rescues, Ivor Brown has found that the English have been strangely inconsistent in the words they keep and those they throw away. Why, for instance, does flay persist but not the igth Century word flay some? Why is gruesome still around but not the verb to grue (shudder)? Concludes Curioso Brown, with a February frown: despite the inventiveness of slang, the English language seems doomed to be drowned out by the tintamarre of the commonplace; all it can hope to do is to thribble along...
General Education A, the first attempt to improve on English A and a creation of University Professor Ivor A. Richards, was recently scrapped. Two hundred freshmen took the course this year. It attempted to combine the regular English A composition program with an introductory survey to all fields of learning...