The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-07

tic fashionable -peln@- matches have al
,.,ty nad their u>D in tuning attention in
:: rtrclr> to The question Which asks, What
i. ~. standard II the Epgti>h language ty
v Oh well. informed people are willing 10 be
i..,'.o,i att 10 " nich they should courteous.
j. ( fer: We have been pleased 10 see that
l.. ii.,ir. coGsG4vt.-S ~ u Tic &Cw Eng
L.. G-r- =. no use our language perhaps with
:, mHch lTity ia auy group oi three million
l.sis" ~ IL" vOIlD. j., onOunccs Tie stand.
:: E.. 81. - ne good usage Of good writer's,
-; j. 90 satisfied by the decision OF any
G." uic,iur9:y..ll2t ~. o.. indeed. OF ANY ten.
ir coErt>iaur vito exposed lie Jolly
>;.-u 81, ted the :, lt,tic> "c0u-.cr.yt bic 4"
l"..-ri he urcl'icc lht they were an Eng
j.. .,nrd. Gio 4 : God thing. TheT" never was
Sac, a W".d ~ lie language: there is no
SAGA wora!- ara Ne hope there never will
b.. i,;.:i' is - say there Is no such word in
I.,@,i ;I.a=". u. Worcester cites it on the
,,rv haH Ht'nprity Of the Ed'nbuM Re
iI,,f. |; = :."s>i'rlc lie Liigat havr found it
il ine Te,nnis.h Var IihOCp. But it is not
Il word which any one .; the bundled best
E..I;I> f ire iuL'l.L ,.ngu@gc wuuld use
Il j5, any ;gu.p';GiOn. Even il The loose
:.ts u hnu,....u :r1gc> ul DR.. Webster il does
70 anpeag - al.
-! tnG srny"ncLca Of & spelling match,
i ta. J.. u,si'i t. say that this or that die
1-...;iiv. ,us'!, accessible. shall be used by
IL ,mpir,s. But the pubic matches already
l. III n.V, urEc i great deal To show TO The
&..ulI pu''tic. "hit all scholars know, that
lt,ir ;tjr Iti.y directions in which the two
q"a-jns t :un,o0Iy used fail 10 show what is
t. he, E"-I>h Usage. The word "Gali-
-" : an In-taEcc. The spelling which is
r.,,u &!o,c i thT. Which II committee Of
.. t..,r,run n.:yi: society chose to adopt
IL tic ;i,;G,i at II thousand changes, which
H.. .rI" never explained, which they
II. ~ - The text of tie English Bible. 1t
/. r. lr-'rfo!c, properly be said 10 he the
4 .rtran way Of spelling the word which
t,.,.IbrS Il resident 0! Galilee. Hut any
lr.r.un who reads he BlaIe or Milton,
,-sus III aD English edition wilt lind the
un.tl Spclt Gai!rin, and every scholar
l-uNS ln&t this spelling Is Justified. Now,
r,,. absuId it is to say that the English
j. Die, printed and published 10y authority
sad with jealous care, is not a standard for
the English language. How absurd it would
H., 10 say that nlau or woman, gul or boy,
" 80 spelled ap English word as he found it
-, led there spelled ii wrong.
This INSTANCE Is not one OF those frequent
t.. tauces where. in lorg usage, a letter drops
4 IL ",
trufck anG parloGr, ana similar words in the
American add the modern English usage.
/; Is simply au instance where the usage OF
one part OF the EJgi>L speaking world Is
different from that Of auolher part; the
standard, however, being one which, from
L." nature OF tie case, passes from part TO
part, aud is received with equal difference in
all.
Inc wild race be, Tecn the compilers OF
The Two great dictionaries TO make each his
b0ck bigger team the other bias done much
TO lDiure those books, and Indirectly to ln-
lure the usage Of the language. III became a
temptation 10 introduce, even to manulac-
tugr, words; 20 that The prospectus might
Say that the new dictionary had more words
than that published the other side OF the
WAY. But just a> the life companies begin
TO ilad that it is dangerous 10 enlarge the
OF pn'icy-hUldtrs if they be scrofu-
IouS or inteupcrute. dictionary -maners VIII
Il I'd that it /, u pity 10 crowd IN Words II
they are not w0rcS, but are only poor lmita'
toLs or spectra: images OF words which
v ere never really born.
We should he sorry TO leave the subject
expressing publicly the tbaDks which
we tage heard expressed In private CONVEX
sat,cn to the intelligent lady at The first spell
uy match, who had the courage 10 protest
ssaust the pur>m "hicn undertook to spell
Inc WORD cauik without au. The caucus In
modern times nas been unpopular; but no
one, before the spelling committee at the
II usic Hall, has ever yentured TO change 1t
MO cacus, Tue ctyn0logists tell Us that it
; derived from the meetings OF the hardy |
.auikers of the North End. II they are to !
)e reduced to caIkers, caucus must DC cut
own in like manner. Eyea in the use OF |
he word cauik for the rouglenipg CT a
lorse's shoe, the etymolOgy is doubtful; and
lness, Tor etymoiogy's sake. we are prepared
o spell chalk without an h, we must not be
expected 10 spell caulk without u.--B9ston
4dCerttSer.
Loose and dcbauched pages of DR.. Web
ter" is good AZ coming from Boston.
Of all the myths of The fairy age, OF its
many leOeuic and apcha NJ nj Jrnp 1--we