ABSTRACT
ISO U R ENG LIS H D E G ENE RAT I N G '? 43 form for in good taste, trap for carriage, tub for bathe, assist for be present, gun for gunner, whip for driver, tidy for almost anything complimentary, and most emphatically expect for suppose, with no implication of anticipation of the future, "a misuse" which Murray says "is often cited as an Americanism, but is very common in dialectical, vulgar or carelessly colloquial speech in England." It occurs multitudinously in English books, even those of good writers, as everybody knows. You will find it a dozen times, for instance, in Anthony Hope's "The Great Miss Driver"-"l expect he liked the scholar and gentleman part" (chap. 2), "1 don't expect Aunt Sara shaved you much" (chap. 6), and so on. This misuse is certainly the reverse of "very common" in this ,country; 1 question whether the American reader can remember ever hearing it except in Great Britain. It may be added that Mr. Hope is guilty, in the book referred to, of several gross errors in syntax, like "he's been to so many queer places" (Ichap. 4), "Jenny and 1 had been to Fillingford" (chap. 11), and, perhaps worst of all, "really it must be her."
