ABSTRACT
Neither the general drift of the preceding chapter nor any allegation or argUment it contains is to be taken as evincing the smallest inclination to dispute or minimize the obvious truth that a considerable number of new, and in many cases uncalled for, words and expressions have been invented and now pass current in the United States, or that the meaning of various others has been gradually warped, to the injury of the language, just as has occurred, in England. This part of the subject has been laboriously investigated by a line of diligent students, so laboriously that there is little left to say about it except in the way of cor-
