Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Niceties of Language. [ARTICLE]

Niceties of Language.

Here are two or three niceties of language to which perhaps some who read this may 'not have had their attention called, says Harper’s Bazar. A man just married is preferably not a “groom,’' but a bridegroom.” The former is not exactly incorrect, but the latter is much the better word. “Dressy” as an adjective cafi be dispensed with, “dress gowns,” “a dress affair,” covering the ground decidedly better. “Full dress” in. the same application is also unnecessary as well as inelegant. Tell your brothers, too, not to talk about their “dress suits’; rather speak of “evening dress.”