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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 28 October 1921, Page 8

Among other subject's, slang cam* under the consideration of a conference of headmistresses of high schools in England aittl, among other obse>rations made by Miss" Hiley, of 8 & w. - castle was that "it -is difficult to Z- - SifrfSla^ gJ. but w'e P ay take it as a Short cut to expression." As examples^ wnri 16 and debasing Pof • words, she cited the employment of "chronic," "priceless/ "bean >> ''too pmg'> "sag." "Such usages" X pointed out, "began in affec&n an! end m inanity. It is really stultifv&J?™ J"«™«» 1 » the mould of , thought." As to what she termed F ri v V a path, and finally a right-of-way. No one now quails she I said, at the word "mob," but this wa£ > slang , n the eighteenth century At . present the word "psycho-analysis" is J not a deterrent to its popular use but tne kmeraatograph has become "the mov,es." Miss Hiley considered that there are two tests as to the per- > manency of slang. - In the first pE£ there> must be a .^ap needed the word; X" the + Si eCOnl', xt mußt fill gap adequately Also, words go through I Sif d- hi; these standards, she prophesied that such words as "stunt" £? d Wu get wiU remain wi*h ua, W wif 7 i, S l^ expressed something f or which there was no alternative word C+°w c^ 11 ' she c.xP ressed the opinl ion that "the question of slang, is but >art of a larger one. We want our anguage to be vivid, natural unTfl Sft • a£ d preciso- The creation of ?fe IS$, c Perpet««l effort to achieve Sh * L^ fter + alf; there^e, the school 5w T 7^ yGt add somethin X service^ abla to the common fund of speech and she certainly did not incur the anger of those who are set over her tor ncr shortcomings, what time they met m solemn conclave as to promoting her truest advancement. * f. A ? TOP LOSING CREAM A little cream lost-each day means a iot of. money lost each year! Stan crenm !pakage.<^-uistal 'a "Domo" *a#*tn rl«an. easy to turn. Got prints tA dp*'llTs from Conppr and Dnncn'p Ltd Gunr^Titors, Cbristchurch. Bennett.and Sutton. Agents, Hawe-s — Allvt.