•Mr. E. V. Lucas makes the suggestion in t.e "Sphere" that some lexicographer should compile a list -of the words which each great -war has added to the language. Such a collection would have to take account of the word "conscript" (verb). The use of "conscript" as a synonym for "conscribe" seems to date from the Civil War in America, where it quickly became the popular, indeed the only form. It is used in Walt Whitman's •'Specimen Days" 11865), but not in "literature" in Britain till much later. "Conscribe," on the other hand, appears as far hack as 1548— Hall's "Chronicles."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 22 June 1918, Page 17
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