[45] Cf. the chapter, Interlude: On Jargon, in Quiller-Couch's On the Art of Writing; New York, 1916. Curiously enough, large parts of the learned critic's book are written in the very Jargon he attacks.
[46] Alexander Francis: Americans: an Impression; New York, 1900.
[47] G. Lowes Dickinson, in the English Review, quoted by Current Literature, April, 1910.
[48] Speech before the Chamber of Commerce Convention, Washington, Feb. 19, 1916.
[49] Speech at workingman's dinner, New York, Sept. 4, 1912.
[50] Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson, comp. by Richard Linthicum; New York, 1916, p. 54.
[51] Speech at Ridgewood, N. J., April 22, 1910.
[52] Wit and Wisdom ..., p. 56.
[53] Henry Sweet: A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical, 2 parts; Oxford, 1900-03, part i, p. 224.
[54] Despite this fact an academic and ineffective opposition to it still goes on. On the Style Sheet of the Century Magazine it is listed among the "words and phrases to be avoided." It was prohibited by the famous Index Expurgatorius prepared by William Cullen Bryant for the New York Evening Post, and his prohibition is still theoretically in force, but the word is now actually permitted by the Post. The Chicago Daily News Style Book, dated July 1, 1908, also bans it.