Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — "Set." [ARTICLE]

"Set."

What is the favorite word of the Bnglish language? The Germans have their “schlag” and “xug,” which cover many meanings. But we beat them in the one word— -not “post” which you might suspect of the supremacy of ambiguity —but “set" One always thought“post" was the word that

meant all things and nothing. The punster should watch the word “set,'* which has achieved nearly seventy columns in the new English dictionary. It is a small word, but its meanings are almost unlimited. You should set to work on the word, which you use every day in a hundred senses. And it would be a pleasant, popular game to set down to the number of ways in which you have used that word during the day. “Set to partners" you might call U. Louisa Chronicle.