American Language Supplement 2 by H.L. Mencken

Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-81344-2
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

2 Tactic may really be called accepted. The NED has examples from Edmund Burke, Edward A. Freeman and Mark Pattison. Mr. Arthur D. Jacobs, of Manchester, tells me that it was used habitually by Sir Stafford Cripps in his Popular Front campaign of 1939. It has been used in this country by a writer as generally careful as Oswald Garrison Villard (Strategy of Good Manners, Negro Digest, Jan., 1946, p. 21) and appears frequently in the Congressional Record, e.g., July 19, 1945, p. 7849, col. 2, and July 26, 1946, p. A4705, col. 2.

3 Catholics and Birth Control, by Monsignor John A. Ryan, American Mercury, April, 1944, p. 505.

4 The Library’s Customers, by J. T. W (interich?), Saturday Review of Literature, Dec. 22, 1945, p. 16.

5 Heredity of the Agglutinogens M and N of Landsteiner and Levine, by Alexander S. Wiener, Human Biology, May, 1935, p. 231.

6 Editor and Publisher, Dec. 14, 1946, p. 78, col. 3.

7 For the year ended June 30, 1945, p. 37.

8 For example, Miss Jane D. Shenton, of Temple University, and Mr. Barrington S. Havens, of Schenectady, N. Y.

1 May, p. 460: “There is a Kalamazoo Pant Company at Kalamazoo, manufacturers of Kazoo trousers.”

2 I am indebted here to Mr. Hayden Siler, of Jellico, Tenn., and Lieut. Col. F. G. Potts, of Mt. Pleasant, S. C.

3 Advertisement of the McKay Foundation, Dec. 27, 1945, p. 9: “Some say it’s fifty or a hundred million years since the first homo sapien roamed the plains and hunted in the hills.”

4 The Game of Baseball: How to Learn It, How to Play It, and How to Teach It; New York, p. 41.

5 Paratroop, by back formation from paratroops, has been reported from England (American Speech, Dec., 1944, p. 311), but so far as I know it has not come into use in the United States.

6 Dissertations on the English Language, p. 118.

7 Some Plural-Singular Forms, Dialect Notes, Vol. IV, Part I, 1913, pp. 48–50.

1 More Words From the Ozarks, by Vance Randolph, Dialect Notes, Vol. V, Part X, 1927, p. 475.

2 Folk-Etymological Singulars, by Wilbur Gaffney, American Speech, Dec., 1927, p. 130.

3 The New Element in American English, American Speech, April, 1945, p. 106.

4 London, 1882, pp. 592–664.

1 Tennessee Mountains, by H. A. Edson and others, Dialect Notes, Vol. I, Part VIII, 1895, p. 376.

2 The Herball, or General Historie of Plants; London, 1597. Quoted in Encore, Oct., 1943, p. 492.

3 Beverage Retailer Weekly, Aug. 28, 1944, p. 9: “Thousands of Marimba Collins are being served and enjoyed every single day.”

4 Livermore (Ky.) Times, July 30, 1937, p. 1: “Baptist Hold Association.” I am indebted here to Mr. Roger C. Hackett.

5 American Speech, Jan., 1927, p. 217.

6 Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President; New York, 1926. Quoted in Encore, April, 1944, p. 395. I hope I need not add that Rogers was anything but illiterate himself. I saw him often in the 1925 era and we had many an hilarious palaver over the American vulgate.

7 Special Service Digest, Oct.

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