Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — The Spread of English. [ARTICLE]

The Spread of English.

If language is a true measure of conquest, as has been contended, then Anglo-Saxon speech is rapidly conquering the continent according to the investigation of a contributor to Harper's Weekly. An Anglicism Introduced into Italy a few years ago created little short of a literary tumult in Rome. The first subway in the Eternal City, a short passage under the Quirinal hill, was opened to the public, who promptly christened it “11 tunnel.” The patriotic indignation was awakened. “Tramway” had been accepted, but angry professors nnd students besieged the Roman papers, demanding to know what had become of “traforo” or “galleria,” good Italian words, and where this English madness was to end. Nevertheless “11 tunnel” thus far holds its own.