The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-06-02

l1sgif CH4NaEd IN WORDS
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These exits and entrances Of words must p
oonssensiy going on. xnose WHO pare LIVED
througn gcnefatzon 90 Two must nave noted
now many have been introduced or have
changed their ground ~ tncir own time. Al
usions 70 their intrcductlons and cnsnge1
meet us constantly IN our reading. Thus
Banter, Mob, Bully, Bubble, sham, Stunning,
and Palming, we're new words ~ the 1aftey's
DAY, who writes Z" nave'don my uemoss fof
some years past 70 stop the progress q Mouu
and banter, out nave peeh plainiy porne down
by numbers ana betrayed py those VINO promi.
sed TO assist me- Heconnossre, ana other
French terms Of war, are ridiouled as innova-
tlons in the Spectator SKATE was . new word
in Swift's DAY. ~ 40 SKATE, u you know what
that MEANS ne writes % Steha. Inere =
new word coined within few mouths
says Fuller, called JdDasscs nockc was
accused OF anection IN using saca instead OF
NOTION. we nave been Obliged says tne
World, "to adopt.the word posscc from the
frencn."a Where we read IN announcer number,
u assisted at the birth OF that most signifi-
cant word Irritation, which dropped from the
most beautiful mouth in the world, and which
has since received the sanction Of our most
accurate Laureate in one OF his comedies"
Ignore was once sacred to grand juries In
the interest of = has been quoted nj our time
as slang phrase just coming into meaning.
Bore has wormed itself into polite use within
the memory Of man. Wrinkle is quietly grow
ing into use in its secondary slang sense.
Mssf we have read from the pen Of grave
lady, writing ON grave subject5 TO express
her serious scorn. Most of these words are
received as necessities into the language.
Some, like "humbug, " are still struggling In
to responsibility. In the middle Of the last
century ID was denounced as the uncouth
dialect of the Huns, the jabber Of the Hotten-
tots" Another writer puts II into enc mouth
of party Of giggiing girls, who pronounce
some one--whom he suspects to be himself
an odioUs, horrible, detesta6sc, shocking HUM
BUG. "This last new coined expression,
ne observes, sounds absurd ana .cisagfeea-
Die whenever IL rs pronouneea out nom the
mouth OK iaoy ~ ~ shocking, oe'essaDies
horrible ana odious. Yet so poinsedly does
1t hit blot OF humanity, so necessary
has it become to the wtuperative element
in our nature, that neither mankind or
woman kind can do without It, The fastidious
DeQuincy4s eloquent in its praise : Yet
neither Is it any safe ground OK absolute ex-
communication from the sanctfties OF iitara.
ture that a phrase Is entireiy the grown OF
the street. Inc WORD num0''g, LOT instance
rests upon Q raoiA and eosnprehcnsisc oas's !,
It cannot De rendered adequately either by
German or by Greek, Che two richest OF human
languages and without tne expressive word
we should all be disarmed for one great case,
continually recurrent, OF social enormity. A
vast amount OF viilainy that cannot otherwise
be reached by legal penalties, or brought with
N the rhetoric OF scorn' wound 60 at large with
absolute IMMUNITY were it not through sne
Mathematician ana OF virsuous ana fnexora-
bic word" ..sr
The fashion OF language toward scenery