Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Gave Saxon the Pre!erence. [ARTICLE]

Gave Saxon the Pre!erence.

Dr. Samuel Johnson spoke vigorous Anglo-Saxon English, but in writing exhibited a fondness for Latin polysyllables. Just the reverse of this was true of Lord Tennyson, Who used many words of Latin origin in his conversation but in his versa showed a preference for simple words! He was asked once if he took pains to rewrite and polish "his pen ems, and answered: “Yes; and I find that in the case of almost every correction 1 have substituted a Saxon for a Latin word."