Word: orton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What sort of English do the English speak? It is certainly not always the Queen's, says Harold Orton, professor of English language and medieval literature at the University of Leeds. Last week, after ten years of gathering material for a definitive Linguistic Atlas of England in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop...
...After World War II, Orton T. Campbell came back from the Air Force to his old civil service job at the Government Printing Office in Washington. But he grumbled loudly against his superiors, was fired for "circulating slanderous and defamatory statements" against them. Campbell carried the issue to the courts. Last week the Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing a lower court ruling, found that Campbell was properly discharged. He can still appeal to the Supreme Court, thereby add substantially to the $500,000 which, it is estimated, the Government has had to spend in trying to separate him from...
Conspicuous by his absence from the squad was Dick Clasby. The Ivy League's third best offensive back failed even to receive honorable mention in a group which included three Dartmouth backs, a sophomore from Brown by the name of John Orton, and a young man named Smith from Princeton...
...VREST ORTON...
Parts of Mr. Orton's ears were missing. Captain James Cook of H.M.S. Endeavour was very much upset; his ship's clerk had been grossly abused. The poor fellow had gone to bed drunk in the ordinary way, and then someone had crept into his cabin and cropped his ears. There had been no witnesses, but on circumstantial evidence Captain Cook suspended a midshipman from duty for three weeks...