Word: noun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instructor in journalism at a nearby girls' school in Newton, I was naturally interested in the use of the word "world" by Publisher Fox. As a former reporter for the Post, I felt impelled to write him a letter asking his authority for the plural verb with his singular noun...
...have done so. Century gives us WORLD--Mankind, or the public generally (as, the whole world knows it); also (as, the world worships success). Webster (Mr. Fox's authority) says, for Collective noun. Gram. A noun naming a collection or aggregate of individuals by a singular form (assembly, army, jury). When the designated collection is thought of as a whole, the noun takes a singular verb. (Mr. Fox said: "the world, by and large."). It strikes me that Mr. Fox has confounded the editorial ""we' with his many other activities and now regards himself as a collective noun, but even...
After that, there are a few instructions about gender (if jeval is horse, omjeval is stallion and jijeval is mare), ordinal numbers (balid is first, balsid is tenth), and adjectives (add ik to noun stems). Finally there are about a hundred words of vocabulary. Samples...
Impartially stamped on cocktail glasses and diplomas, Veritas is the familiar emblem of Harvard College. But acceptance of this Latin noun came only after a haphazard beginning and two centuries of neglect and controversy...
Down several notches but also effective is "The Boy Those Father Owned a Barn" by James Bucchler. The descriptive passages are sharply sensory; the reader smells the kitchen and warms to the stove. But to accomplish this, Bucchler loads every noun with adjectives, so that the few action passages are heavy and slow...