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Show HOUSEHOLD WORDS NOT OLD " . In '.Everyday Uso Today, but Really Havs Not Long Been Incorpo-rated Incorpo-rated in the Language. Most persons probubly think that the word "starvation" la as old as the language; but It Isn't. It was first used In 1775 In a speech made In parliament par-liament by Henry Dundas, ywho In consequence became widely known as "Starvation Dundaa." ' -"Intensify" and "outsider" are two words less than a hundred years old. The Kngllsh 0 poet, Coleridge, deliberately delib-erately coined the forriier word because there was no other In existence to express ex-press the particular shade of meaning which he wished to convey; and "outsider" "out-sider" came Into being In 1844, during the convention that nominated James ; K. Polk for President. The delegates were subjected to uncomfortable pressure pres-sure bf the throng of spectators gathered gath-ered without the hall, and some one happily described It as a pressure from the "outsiders." The term was taken up by the reporters apd at once became popular. Other words unknown until the middle mid-dle of the Seventeenth century include in-clude such now familiar ones as "sculptor," "umbrella," "opera," "suicide" "sui-cide" and "peninsula," while Bentley In the Eighteenth century had actually actual-ly to defend himself for using such strange terms as "timid," "concede," "repudiate "'Idiom and "vernacular," "vernacu-lar," and George' Campbell In 1776 hesitated to use such queer new words as "originate," "sentimental" and "criminality.' |
