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Show SLANG ENRICHES ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLEVELAND June 17. Tho use of slang was defended bv William A. Craigle. professor of Anglo-Saxon at th- University Of Oxford England, in an fttddrssi .ii "The Oxford Dictionary, Diction-ary, at Western Kcsoivc university, here. "Slang iindoubdtely enriches the language." Professor Craigle said, i The ephemeral part disappears, but the vivid, expressive part remains In the language and adds a picturesque note ' Referring to the Oxford dictionary, which will be published soon after 60' years of collecting and compiling millions mil-lions of notes. Professor Craigle snl-.l 'The Oxford dlrtlonary Is i record 6f English terms from the eighth century cen-tury down to the present time, omitting omit-ting only the words which did not survive sur-vive the eleventh century and the new words which are too trivial or too technical to be Included " ' The words of classic origin arc easy to study and classify. It Is the slmplo word? that are hard.' he continued "The word 'sit' for Instance occupies 65 columns and Is divided Into 154 1 sections.'' oo |