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Show NEW ENGLISH. A guest at a recent banquet given by the police captains of New York counted twelve different words used by the captains cap-tains in place of "money." They were: Tin. cush, gelt, rocks, sand, candy, dough, sugar, mazuma, spondullz, glad wealth, the welcome green. Thla tells Its own atory of the transformation transfor-mation of the language. Today these T. orda are slang. Some of them doubtless will be regarded aa legitimate English before be-fore many 'years have pasaed. Just aa many worda that are recognized aa polite today were once outcasts. Since William Shakespeare's day this abeorption of slang irto English speech has been so contlnu-r contlnu-r us that even his learned brain would be bewildered could he revisit these grimpsea of the moon and listen to the language "a a she is spoke'' -In thla twentieth century. cen-tury. It ia barely possible that the very police captains who had so comprehensive a vocabulary of synonyms for "money" could give forth a torrent of language that he could not understand at all. It would be Interesting to note the exprea-aton exprea-aton of dismay that his face would assume as-sume under the circumstances. He would cither consider himself a ridiculous old dolt or an unlettered child, or he would raake a hurried start for the elongated . woodlands. Louisville Courier-Journal. |