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Show Complaint of a Vulgarism. Says a writer In the London Chron Iclo: "A vulgarism one which, like aggravate' for 'Irritate. has come Into use by way of the kitchen stairs is 'demean,' with a sense of derogation or abasement. It is to be teen In many a paper and oven many a book and heard In mnny a speech It Is tho second syllable that has misled the popular understanding, but tho noun 'demeanor' should have s-aved the educated from their blunder with thu verb. When tly cook refuses to 'demean herself she Is excusable, bo-cause bo-cause 'demeanor' la not In her vocabulary." |