Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considering the influences at work on the English, terms of law, of the church, and words for articles of necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same...
...this suggests another point in which language is interesting. The little facts of domestic history are to be found imbedded in it, and not only so, but we may trace in it sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker...
Occasionally a subscriber complains that the morning's CRIMSON was not delivered to him. We regard such a report as a favor. Outside parties have contracted to deliver the papers satisfactorily, and the word of subscribers is all that can indicate whether they are fulfilling their contract. If they are careless and no complaint is made, they will grow more careless; but, if the complaint does come, then there is a palpable warning to them against remissness. We wish that, whenever the paper is not delivered, subscribers would send a card stating the fact. To have the papers slovenly delivered...
...Word comes from the Office that next Thursday will probably not be a holiday in the University. This strikes us as exquisitely inappropriate. A holiday has been established by the State to commemorate the patriotism of those sons who were the pioneers of the nation's independence. Few historic events are more dramatic than the battles of Lexington and Concord; few have so firm hold upon national enthusiasm or so great renown throughout the civilized world. The first educational institution of the land, situated in such proximity to the battle fields, founded and fostered by the same spirit for public...
...sense in which I am here speaking of style. is something quite different from the power of the idiomatic, simple, nervous, racy expression, such as the expression of healthy robust natures so often is, such as Luther's was it a striking degree. Style, in my sense of the word, is a peculiar