Word: scoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From now on, proclaimed the Trib, words of more than one syllable ending in "ff" will end simply in "f," e.g., distaf, sherif, tarif, midrif, bailif, mastif, rifraf. (One-syllable words like cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina...
Some reader, it seemed, had yapped that the News, which loves to scoff at "big $7 words," had itself been guilty lately of such windy words as "intolerable," "incompatibility," "vulnerable," and "genocide." Asked the reader: "Ain't going highhat...
Newspapers picked up the story. One reporter, who came to scoff, turned into a pious member of the cult. Long lines of cars jammed the road in front of John Brown's farm. More than a thousand people crowded around the shrine. The master of the master cell had to call for police to keep them from trampling his cell-treated corn...
...Disney and a novel (So Dear to My Heart) for Doubleday. Disney had the story tested by Sindlinger and North obligingly made the Workshop-indicated alterations (which he says were minor). Since then the book has sold 25,000 copies. North was "genuinely converted," he said. "People who scoff at poll-taking . . . are scoffing at democracy. . . . It is a humbling but enlightening experience. . . . I can think of several opinionated American authors who might benefit by the experience...
WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FELL (221 pp.)-Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, translated by Sarah Fisher Scoff-Pantheon...