The English Language
D OES the English language need improving, and can'it be improved if it does need it? These are questions answered with an emphatic “Yes” by Sir Richard Paget, Bt., Fellow of the Physical .Society of London, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and famous as an authority on the throat.
Sir Richard urges the improvement of the language in a chapter of a remarkable book —“Human Speech” (Kegan Paul) —in which he unfolds to the average man the mystery of tile origin of speech. For one thing, Sir Richard Paget holds that there is plenty of scope for the invention of new words, especially short words. There is the possibility, he Says, of forming more than 500(5 words of one syllable out of the English consonants and vowels, “very few of which,” he declares, “are at present in actual use.”
“Relies of barbarism” is Sir Richard’s description of some forms. For. instance, I go, you go, wo go, and they go, but he “goes.” If “go” is good enough for all the others, why not for “he”?
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 10
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180The English Language Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 10
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