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Show H BIO WORDS OF OLD TIMER8. Modern Tongue Twitter Not In It by Comparison. Hj "Those who are accustomed to rldl culo present day scientists becauso ol H their fondness for big words," said the H etymologist, " will find them much inoro modorato In tho concoction ot H words than tho old timers. H "For Instanco, I havo just come across tho account of a scientific H trcatlso published In tho seventeenth B century that contains words oven H much moro cumbcrsomo than Its tltlo, H which, by tho way Is "Panzoologlco- H mlncralogla. A good mouthful surely, H yet the word Is reduced to Its com- H poncnt parts. M "Tho list of long titles that wero H then favorlto would cnuso the modern H book clerk a spasm, yet tho list could Hh 1)0 Kno Into Indefinitely. A play In W blank verso published In tho latter H part of tho seventeenth century hnd H as Its alluring tltlo 'Chrononhonton- H tbolos,' and this was the opening sen- H " 'Aldoborontlphoscophornlo, where H left you ChrononhotonthoIogosT' H "If tho modern mouthing actor can H hardly get slmplo AnRlo-Saxon words H over tho footlights, how could ho got H alone with that morsel?" |