The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-25
New words Needed.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Possibly no one realizes the necessity
for some new words in English so great
" as the reader of many novels and Short
stories. If there is another who feels the
lack as much it is the historian of con@
temporaneous times.
Within a month there have been two
volumes Of short stories published which
deal, generally speaking, with the world
where English is the language customarilY
heard. One of them had tales of Austra-
liza, the Southern Pacific and its islands,
India. Minnesota and California. The oth-
er included India and Australia, England
and Scotland, Canada and Cyprus. Re-
Gently works on countries as remote al
Manitoba, New Zealand, Georgia, East
ern Africa, Jamaica, the Bahamas, LlDe~
ria and the Sandwich Islands have app
peared, some of them novels, some his
tories.
II must of course be conceded that these
countries (all Of them and a great many
more) have a language and a literature
in common. 1t may be granted that there
are certain other characteristics shared
among them which are not held in COM
mon with the world without. For exam
pie English and American travellers IN
l
good an impression with the natives thae
It becomes easier for other white men 10
pass through their territory, while the eX-
plorers Of other nations produce an I'M
preston directly contrary. How shall We
include the two and exclude the others'
"Anglo-Saxon" does not in the least eA-
press the racial condition Of AFFAIRS
either here or elsewhere, and 'Englsh-
| speaking" though sometimes accurats
enough, is always clumsy, and sometimes
! includes nations where no connection can
be traced. Liberia, for example. In the case
at hand
English is to-day the language OF the ma
lions in the British Isles, IN Gibraltar, 81.
Helena, Cyprus, Malta and other European
Islands; In vast tracts OF Africa, including
Zanzibar and Egypt; In the indian empire
! straits settlements, Ceylon, Borneo, Hong
Kong, Alden, and any number Of places IN
Asia; In Australia, Tasmania, New Iea-
land, Hawaii and host Of Pacific ISLANDS,
aud In Canada, and the United States. in
all these lands, except those first nameds
! there Is a population not wholly Englishs
not always aboriginal, sometimes az va
rance with the English-speaking rulers
established over them. What words or
distinction have we In English for them or
ourselves? How set of the Canadian and
the American from the North American
! Indian, or the Engllshman and residehs
American from the Hindool There -
no way Of doing Il, and more than or max
ing a simple discrimination by word 10.
stead OF sentence between the French OK
| Quebec and Louisiana and their neighbour
However long this state Of affairs may
have been going on, a h only now tha' -
Is coming to reflect itself In our literature.
These late stories are. Of course. laier
than OF Robert Louis Stevenson. but nos
80 much later as a matter Of logic, Tor 10
was really the first TO feel this world.uhi-
versatility OF the English peoples he aeas
with them IN England. America, the SCUM
seas and all manner OF places. HOW ai1
YOU going 20 describe the quality Il VII
surely Elve7 -
one thing n reasonably assured; No
who speak English generally OBTAIN
word when We ind thar thought b 70 p.
expedited In ~ adoption. Justas soon Z.
the feeling indicated by these books 2.
which mention has been made pecomt,
widespread some one. ~ may BE- en- aiA'
OF the streets will give ua a plain pf.,
ticnl and simple name FOR oureeltel 49,
1 eur brethrcn throughout the world