Oddly-shapen or Oddly-taken Words.
Mongrel (hybrid) words, or words partly from one tongue and partly from another.
Twy-speechwords are a sore blemish to our English, as they seem to show a scantiness of words which would be a shame to our minds; as,
Sub-warder for under-warder.
Pseudo-sailor for sham-sailor.
Ex-king for rodless or crownless king.
Prepaid for forepaid.
Bi-monthly for fortnightly or every fortnight.
Wordiness (Verbosity).
As ‘The train ran with extraordinary velocity,’ for ‘the train ran very fast.’
‘Alfred did the business with perfect fidelity;’ for ‘Alfred did the business faithfully.’
Thence much of the wordiness of our written, if not spoken, composition.
The ‘New York Times’ thus explains how it was that the flames got to the roof in the burning of the Fifth Avenue Hotel:—‘Fire always is aspirant, the sole exception being where incandescent masses fall down, and so act as a medium of ignition.’