ABSTRACT
66 AMERICAN ENGLISH parlance, an assignment which a reporter knows will fail"; to place a person is to "call to mind the place of his birth"; the word push "is in quite common use to characterize the followers of racing, base..!ball, rowing, athletics, &c." If the promise of the preliminary circular, that "every page, before going to press, will pass through the hands of trained experts of the American Dialect Society" for criticism, was faithfully kept, it would appear that the trained experts, like Jupiter, occasionally nodded.
