The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems
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The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems is credited to the Society for Pure English. S.P.E. Tract No. V includes The Englishing of French Words by Brander Matthews and The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Robert Bridges. A section headed French Words in the English Language says the English language is an Inn of Strange Meetings where all sorts and conditions of words are assembled. The text describes an evident tendency over the past two or three centuries to keep a word French, and says it is dangerous to the purity of English.
The text says Sainte-Beuve declared that a philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French. The text quotes Spencer as saying that a reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. The text says maligns is used as a neuter verb without precedent.
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