Show gains and losses in language about equal in the post past tire the english language ima box gained coined two or three words and lost loit one or two every year the rate elf f gain and los Is now much higher slave the world tins has grown smaller we e have gained many scientific and fir firely eln but because time also lins dwindled we have hare lost many that vare worth a 8 thought while the spread of a literary sense of humor Is forcing some good anglo saxon words out of use the mechanical and scientific apparatus which now form a great rent part of oui outer life are bringing in an ern era of modified democratic the old speech though it served george georce eliot well will hardly serve or ia the scientific and analytic spirit nf the day which takes too little littie for granted has made words derived from greek and latin fashionable with english writers while the imposing ilage used in commercial advertising must eventually affect the vocabulary of the general public observer london |