Word: slanging
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...cockney is not alone in tracing its antecedents to ancient royalty. If England is going to resort to etymology to prove even her slang good English, common Americans are equally justified in defending themselves. Clerk is supposed to rhyme with lark in the best English, yet no less a writer than Chaucer coupled it with world. Plebian "ain't" appears in Thackery, apparently quite good form. While if the beaux and macarouss of Pope's day were to appear today and tald as they did in the drawing rooms of London, and ordinary American might well imagine they were telling...
...Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
Doubtless there are times when slang is appropriate but there are also times when the use of correct English is indispensable and it would be well for many of us if we could remember to talk English once in a while. --Daily Iowan, University of Iowa...
...fact that Harvard should adopt such a measure appears strange to many of us undergraduates among whom the American language has become generally used. The prevalence of slang is so common to most of us that the speaker of pure English almost needs a code in order to carry on a conversation with...
...form of artistry. His matter-of-fact yet expressive Americanisms reflect all the more to his credit for interpreting them because they are set in a heavily-contrasting background of English stodginess. It is like a refreshing cold shower to hear his crisp, incisive ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive in the truly British, undemonstrative manner. Arthur Elliott does a rare piece...