| Show r ir toj i w lub i JOua iw a rl 4 language 1 ap ja 0 t i 0 ij use jg of americ americanisms a nisin it S i if i when samuel johnson was as allye the notion prevailed in some english boak circles that the colonists in would develop a new lan ian guage jas different from that of the mothr motherland laud as italian Is from french and that there would be lit tie ile or hosale ar for english diction arles aries here the most recent pamphlet of 0 tile the american dialect society in in some som notes on british of anie rican speech quotes lumea ous us 7 frer es to gotlie the jn atter am amari r aca tra i 1 acan travelers eters anen ln Eti g gland 1 a nd d during il alog 9 y r cAlon I 1 on I 1 lal a period erlo naturally used upa wor words qs an and d phrases r s s that had their origin in e plo n er alte ife fri anthe the new world world aid the e EA english Is who heard ali wintre ein tre m le thaw ica ln should spread there were even eren americans kmer leanA durley the revolution who hd would have liked ito to iee see linguistic us as well as political independence set bp up in this country it if wo we could not de develop eliji a new ian language of our own a kind of eighteenth century esperanto they would have hare had bad us change to hebrew we seethe sam espirit in id ireland today among those who wish to extirpate the english language and make celtic t the e mother tongue of course such a proposal came to nothing amongst anong sf us we did however cling to our americanisms and there Is no reason son why supercilious englishmen should regard them as corruptions corrupt ions of the pure tongue the hundreds of words that we adopted through our association with the indians indiana many of them with a rich symbolism the phrases that came into use through clearing the wilderness and the development of our political system were as legitimate as those with which the elizabethans elizab ab ethans enriched the english language g u age g they are not to be confused with the handful of barbarisms barbari sms that 1 have ae crept into the american ver it la cular barbarisms barbari sms which punch and even an author like galsworthy put in the mouths of americans Amp ricans almost invariably wron wrong end to nor does a college professor in america as ns galsworthy would haven have his readers think go to school foar for his english to ring baseball heroes As well might an american novelist put puttee the frightful jargo nofa suffolk small town man into the of nn an oxford don they dont speak the same ian language guage doston boston tran transcript script |
