File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 216


Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:06:25 -0400 ()
From: Terry Goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: "smokescreen of Latinate words"


There was an attempt in the mid-19C by a number of writers, most
prominently Tennyson, to use Anglo-saxon words on the premise that
Latinate words represented foreign influence harmful to the good English
character.
t

Terry Goldie
English Department
York University
North York, Ontario
Canada
M3J 1P3
voice: 416-604-3670
fax: 416-736-5412
email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca



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