Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 9 Jan 1930, p. 27

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hit i to AU LD an t1, 0 ~_. didacy." _ Any American would_supâ€" â€"_.â€"pose this term to be unimpeachable, but one searches the English dictioâ€" naries for it in vain. . In the 18th ___century they usedâ€"theâ€"stately "candiâ€" dateship," : now . they say â€" "candidaâ€" ture." _ Apparently, the greater euphony of "candidacy" has recomâ€" mended it to Americans, for it enjoys & wide usage and appears in all our dictionaries. . â€"The phrase "protect the action" of someone appears careless to the British, the transatlantic usage calling for the participle "against." .i Yek it is â€"merelyâ€"aâ€"differentâ€"applicaâ€" tion of the same term used in the legal senge of protesting a note or an "Io uo ooies That th 'OIde:itis‘l'x1 t appears that the is oncans more Goes â€" not "fill" a . prescription; he "makes it up." : However, in this land of prohibition the American exâ€" Pression is, perhaps, more apt; cerâ€" tain it is that "All" is more widely used, and quite correctly so, for this &?pliution dm _word i:”t:e sense ol execute or £ oێs to the Angloâ€"Saxon, Thg:%n reviewer Oxford dictionary goes so far as to admit an archaic use, for it: was in goodâ€"standing in ~England for more than a century after Milton. The exâ€" pression in itself is perfectly normal English, having been discontinued in England for no obvious reason. _ ‘We Americans are prompt to reâ€" the _ English â€" people_certain â€"words ‘and expressions which bear the unâ€" mistakable mintmark of the country ~of their coinage. ‘In “jolly:;h:nthnd where one i about one‘s business mthmfi‘tfifir&t% Mift" and partakes of an inimitable afternoon â€"tea of â€" "biscuits," with a "jug" of cream on the side, we feel ‘that we are being very British when we employ those terms. But few of us are able toAidmtify so readily the specifically. American usages in our own speech and writing. _ A Aâ€"reviewer in the London Times, givinga long and highly favorable the Dictionary : of <American Bioâ€" graphy, now being published in this: country under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Socieâ€" ties, takes exception ~to "the use of eight words that seem ‘to him to "afâ€" ford obvious indications of their counâ€" try of origin." The first is the exâ€" pression "a well man." An Englishâ€" man is quite properly an "ill" manâ€" but never a "well" man; he is merely’ "in good health." It is interesting to 8 > ts Out Those WonPcperVPoin ralt nan ~â€" Â¥Yank Origin WORDS THAT â€" BRAND US AS AMERICANS T} elegant English lay, January 9, 1980 oi ooo acommenniierannd is a very wide attitudeâ€"indeed, and all but writes the obituary of the word "rear" in the notation. "native form corresponding to and largely ousted by ‘raise,‘" â€" The next word," "quiz" must be credited to Amgrica, though it is apparently . a modification of the English word meaning "to mke{ sport of." Most of us are inclined. ford ‘dictionary now lists under "rear"â€""raise, bring up, bread, fosâ€" ter, nourjsh, educate, cultivate, grow, (cattle, game, children, crops, etc.)" Even such a striect authority grants ~LO1Id Control" ~which speeds the freezing of ice and desserts. Every one has the extra power that insures better refrigeration. All onâ€"steel, every household Frigidaire has the famous and equipped with the "COLD CONTROL" _every household Frigidaire ~â€"â€"â€"â€" inside and out is _ FRIGIDAIRE 0 00 ce monm apencomnmaecamsec c Michigan Ave. at Randolph St./â€"â€" 151 N. Michigan Ave. â€" Randoiph 4950 HIGHLAND PARKâ€"Stover Co.. 382 Central Ave., Highland Park 150 HUBBARD WOODSâ€"Stover Co., 656 uu..‘Af-.. Winnetks 1512 EVANSTONâ€"Stover Co., 1631 Sherman Ave., Greenleaf 4486 PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOISâ€"At al their a Por T H E P RE 3 STOVER CO. is an excellent pictureâ€"word for. an "examination." It now fills an imâ€" portant place in our language. 3 5 "Politician" i4 The last word mentioned is one of the pitfalls of Americans in reading English books and periodicals. It is "politician.‘" In current British usage this means a statesman and the Englishâ€"Prime Minister who reâ€" cently visited our shores. In ‘Amerâ€" ica the term has taken on the implicaâ€" tion of..‘"wireâ€"puller"â€"orâ€""intrigner.* NOW iâ€"stee| have selfâ€"sealing trays that permit the freezing compartment to be kept intensely cold. : v Examine these new Frigidaires now on y 2+~ dh]ihy‘ at our ‘showrooms.; speeds at the turn of a lever. Pllll- Comeinhoday. Get complete information about our liberal pnavyment lvvab‘fm all their offices ~~As is well kno fi_ffl,â€"m“‘irnm in Atchison is Dr. Will Smith.. One day in churech he didn‘tsing â€"and everybody . thought the had he probably: won some ‘of his hearers by what they thought was his engagâ€" ing frankness. So the American usage may not be altogether reasonable to our British critic. It is certain, at any rate, that Mr. Lioyd George, who, while visiting in this country, frequently described himself as a politician, little realized 39 «pry

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