Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — London Literary Academy. [ARTICLE]

London Literary Academy.

One respects the nlne-and-twenty gentlemen who are to start the British Academy, and select the words we should-use, and one wonders who shall be in the other eleven who make up the forty who shall finally try to stop the English language from taking its own course. But our language has had its vagaries It has gone through America and Judaism and Spain and—well It is a compound of all the nations on eartu. It’s a greedy language and digests all words. It invented Hindustani and the pigeon English of Shanghai. From the Babu to the naturalized American negro, from the Maori to the Highlander, they talk English, and so many kinds of English.. Each man brings his word from the various countries and continents and lays it on the counter at Charingcross. “That’s English,” he says. And on that counter are placed words from China or West Africa, from America or Australia, English words that have been annexed and imposed. There isn’t room here for a dictionary. But it would not take long to prove that you cannot stop the English language from growing—even by an academy.— London Chronicle.