Word: menckenisms
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...slang expression in rebellion against literary English. This tendency has gone so far that when the novel "Babbitt" was introduced to England it was found necessary to print a glossary of "Americanisms" in the back; and recently a book on "The American Language" was published by Henry Louis Mencken, giving a host of slang terms that have come into use in this country. But it is to the advantage of everyone from American cabdriver to British cockney, that the two countries should speak the same language, differing in dialect as little as possible; and with this end in view...
...Mencken, American Language...
...probably the two things which just now may prevent the future conception of a bill such as was recently introduced in the Kentucky Legislature, prohibiting teaching the Darwinian theory in state-supported schools. In view of this possible hope for the South, it may be expected that the Nathan-Mencken school of professional South-haters will oppose this legislation...
Messrs. Nathan and Mencken have directed their editorial gaze upon the Universities; in the February issue of "The Smart Set" is the fourth of a series of articles on "The Higher Learning in America". It is written by Mr. Gilbert Seldes, a Harvard man, and, naturally enough, is an article on our own University...
...Mencken: Prejudices...