Word: purists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...
...Purist. In Durham, N.C., one A. E. Lloyd insisted that "stoping" meant an excavation method in mining, refused to pay a fine for parking beside a "No Stoping" sign. The court docilely dropped charges, ordered the misspelling corrected...
...Curmudgeon, Inch-builder, press-purist Ickes...
...risk of being called a blankety-blank purist, I have changed the name of this column from "Swing" to "Jazz." As one of my many belated acts, I hope to removes the stigma of a name which has, of late, become thoroughly unfitting to the contents...
...risk of being called a blankety-blank purist, I have changed the name of this column from "Swing" to "Jazz." As one of my many belated acts, I hope to remove the stigma of a name which has, of late, become thoroughly unfitting to the contents...