id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 12358 Society for Pure English Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919) .txt text/plain 3417 263 67 SOCIETY for PURE ENGLISH (S.P.E.) In calling itself the Society for Pure English it was not overlooked the idea that words of foreign origin are _impurities_ in English; it I. Literary taste at the present time, with regard to foreign words matters; and a list of all such words with their English history would English language has undoubtedly weakened its ancient word-making Many words are added every year to the English vocabulary, but they HENRY BRADLEY, F.B.A., Ph.D., Joint Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, W.P. KER, F.B.A., Professor of English Literature, University College, *F.W. MOORMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English Language and Literature, Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, Litt.D., &c., Professor of English Sir WALTER RALEIGH, Professor of English Literature, Oxford G.C. MOORE SMITH, Litt,D., Professor of English Language and H.C.K. WYLD, B.Litt., Professor of English Language and Philology, G.S. GORDON, Professor of English Literature, Leeds C.H. HERFORD, Litt.D., Professor of English Literature, Manchester ./cache/12358.txt ./txt/12358.txt