Coalville Times | 1904-05-27 | Page 5 | A Gap in the Language

A ,i Im 111, Un,Us,, "I have anoiher complaint against thp P.ngliHh tongitp," begau the Lite. nry Mun, "There are a good many gups lu It, of cournp, but ll seems to in that the moat absurd la that a l.ui gunge which has a dor.cn current names fur drink has none for lb young woman whom a innii Is engaged to marry. Most of the teruis that might be suggented uru the hssesi of -oiu 'bet girl,' 'lute luted,' sod s forth. We haie lo full hack weakly on the French llancpp. And yet the relation la Kngllnh and Am.rl.'nii enough, 1 think, for ua lo have a woi-ct of our own. Of coump, there is 'awiselheiirl,' but Hint seems to have dropped out uf use uliogcther." Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press.