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Show A QUIZ OF WORDS. In a recent questionnaire sent to a number of eminent persons it was asked: "What word seems to you most annoyingly overused or misused?" mis-used?" Among those suggested were: Intrigued, In-trigued, kiddies, cute, awful, gorgeous, gor-geous, very, sure, nice, grand, glamorous, glam-orous, colorful and I. Another question was: "What word in English seems to you most beautiful beau-tiful in sound?" Replies included the following: Mother, Mo-ther, love, violet, lake, laughter, willow, wil-low, melody and I. A well-known educator edu-cator voted for payday, with which most teachers will agree, while a Mexican poet liked the sound of cuspidor cus-pidor best. In answer to the request to pick the most useful word in the language, lan-guage, these were suggested: No, yes, the, of, and, in, it, is, have, do, and I. An editor thought eat the most useful. It may be observed that the pronoun pro-noun I was selected in answer to three questions, and a prominent physician declared, it to be at once the most beautiful, the most useful and the most annoyingly overused of all words. Many of our readers will probably pro-bably agree. |