Show NOW AS AS TO DOPE lion HOTT Word orrt Slipped Into Ino General 1 1 Use Ine Through GuIses 1 i iOne One man says sas to lo another r. I think so and so gave me the lie right Ilor He lie SJ i. i means that h he ha has hal been heen given accurate Information The person to tn whom he lie is' is talking so understands him hint I If he has l i l kept up with the progressive En English lI h language e. e Not ut so man many years ears ago dope ta was an all obscure word seldom heard It had j jonh only onh a n few Cew meanings J It t could he be used of oC any thick pastry thIn thing for eating a eating a thick sauce auco or gruel A 1 mixture of oC pitch tallow tallou etc put on the soles of shoes to keep the wearers from Crom slipping on moist snow was al also also also al- al so known as dope So too was an absorbent material such as cotton cotton- waste vaste suitable for or holding thick There the dictionaries stop They he have havo refused to record or have boen been unaware 00 o-f o the the- rich development of the thc word In recent years ears The first stop step was In calling opium when prepared for or smoking dope That was not nol an Illegitimate ns use for forthe foj tor- the smokers smoker's erR opium is a pasty past viscous substance Then where it had been customary to call a man an habitual user of opium It seemed shorter to call him a dope fiend Next ext came the verb to Uto to dope to put dr drugs Js J's In a Do persons person's per per- per per-J sons son's drink to stupefy him and mal mak tj robbery robber cas easy Then followed easily What hat J enough the thc metaphorical use l kind of dope are you OU giving us was nas expressive of oC the belief bellet that an at i al-i tempt was being made to deceive o that false Information had been Imparted Im lm 1 parted And last lastly we have havo dope dop l meaning Information which ma may be bar correct the correct the right 1 Rind kind of dope or incorrect bu but t which Is more II likely 1 e l t te tebe be the thc latter There are nrc purists who do not J like IlIce IlIceto to see new buds and blossoms on the flourishing flourishing- tree of or the lie English lan language language guage but the they thoy cannot prevent pre their appearance It must be admitted however how over ever that the new ne meanings of ot oh 01 words not yet et cau caught ht up with by ti thc th dictionaries do bewilder and grieve e tb the cultured l Englishman n lishman who thinks he I Ia In la laa a n master of oC English English Chicago Tribune I |