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ROMANCE OF LANGUAGE. THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF 125,000 WORDS
13TH, 1924
PALACE OF INDUSTRY
WEMBLEY WONDERS.
Industries of the United Kingdom are The first Parkable iterary effort shown in a novel sething at the British ever mus forward by any university," was Empire Exhibition at Wembley, writes the description applied by Lord Curzon Sim Percival Phillips in the Daily Mai at the Oxford University Press Luncheon Instead of a vast hall containing a con to the Oxford Dictionary organisation fused mass of exhibits momated with This Dictionary," said Lord Curzon,varying degrees of artistic skill," the would remain the glory of Oxford for visiter Ends himself in a miniaturo city centuries to come wish," he added, complete with mills and factories, but so the public would realise a little moru skilfully screened behind, ornamental what this Dictionary means Week by tacades that each particular section will
eskutably in the autumn of the present its own picture of industry-wher Sunday Press, which has time, as the influenced by its neighbours. daily preas never bas, to devote to lite rature. Ice interesting letters on literary and philological subjects, and all these questions are answered in this great Oxford Dictionary,
The Palace of Industry is a happy con promise between the promiscuous ar rangement of previous British oshibitions and the uncompromising uniformity of recent Continental enterprises Art and The origin of this great work fr commerce have walked amicably together C. T. Onions, one of the present editors, in the unfinished corridors, and their told a representative of the Obserrer, joint efforts will surprise and please the was an appeal made to the Philological public
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then Dean of Westminster, to under take the collection of materials to comlike re times the size of Trafalgar Imagine this great space, cathedral- plete the work done by Bailey, Johnson, square, cut into 23 city-wards, each Todd, Webster, Richardson, and others, enclosed by solid fireproof walls, with and to prepare a supplement to the lofty entrance portices ranged symmetri dictionaries, which should register Feally on either side of straight avenues omitted words and senses, and supply flanked by tall gilt columns The per all the historical information in which ticos vary in design from the two-story these works were lacking, and, above all front of an old Virginia mansion, to the should give quotations illustrating the replica of a Scottish medieval gateway. first and last appearance and every not ablo point in the life-history of every worden,
You enter from one of these main thoroughfares and find yourself in an isolated area, with distinctive colouring and decorations, embracing the products of a definite branch of British industry, in which the firms concerned appear, as partners.
Co-operation is everywhere the key note. Twenty-five architects and a band: of ambitious young artists have stamped their individuality on the interior of the Palace of Industry without in any way marring the general scheme of the de siguers. The dignified Georgia mansion representing Ulster lives in harmony with Novel's massive temple-like entrance,
IMMENSE CNDERTAKING," Preparations for the work were at once begun but it was not until 1579, when Dr., afterwards Sir James Murray, took over the editorship, that the immensity of the undertaking was fully realised; and it was 1934 before the Erst section was published. Dr. Henry Bradley, who died last year, was afterwards made second editor. In 1887 Dr. William A. Craigie joined the staff, and later began editing independently with the letter N A year before the death of Sir James Murray, which occurred in 1915, which is nothing more than a fragment Onions also became an independent of the great shell skilfully transformed editor, after having been for nearly by a pillared front, twenty years engaged as a member of the staff, and undertook the independent editing of SU-SZ. He is now editing the WI section,
All industries save engineering are housed under one roof. p
The largest section is devoted to food, beverages, and tobacco. Nearly 44,000 Besides the present editors, Dr. Craigis square feet of space is covered with ex- and Mr. Onions, there are ten assistants,hibits embracing every branch of the food and the work which goes on day by day industry. Bread
within the walls of the Old Ashmolean baked daily disenits will be
HOW CLOTH 1 MADE.
is gradually nearing the end. The Die tionary is now complete to the end of the letter T. The letters, V, X, Y and Z are also published. There remain por tions only of U and W to be done, and cotton exhibit organised by the Empire
A complete. cotton "factory is erected." Visitors will be able to watch every step of the process, beginning with the raw
sections of these have already appeared. Cotton Growing Association and follow-E
GERMAN RIVAL, BARing it through the milli until it appears. Compared with some of the foreiqu
as finished textiles in one section of the dictionaries, Mr. Onions said, the aeroa theatre for constant displays of Cotton Ward. There will ever be a arent thing is that we have got through films dealing with the British cotton so muck in so short a time. I was once industry said, 'I belicro by a German, that we were proceeding with indecent haste of floor space, with a weaving mill in Wool textiles have 15,000 square feet The first volume of the great German dictionary, the Deutsches Wörterbuch operation, and contributions by more begun by the brothers Grimm-in-1818 Tacturing, dyeing, and spinning" inas, than 40 Lancashire and Yorkshire manu was completed in 1854; and ever now the The principal phases of cloth manufac work is a long way from being finished.ture will be shown by the Bradford The great Dutch dictionary, the Woor Chamber of Commerce. Silks and mis denboek, the beginnings of which date cellaneous textiles Ell another 16,000 from 1830-31 made its first appearance square feet in 1561, and is still very much in pro- The Royal Society has co-operated with gress.
the chemical manufacturers in producing "The parts of the Oxford Dictionary an exhibit which shows the advance made; which have already been published com-in recent years in chemical science, The tain about 400.000 words, and the possible f" Chemical Ward, which is spread over total will be 493,000; L'am sorry we can 10,000 square feet, is enclosed by an at not say half-a-million. The total cost of the work has been estimated to be about a-million and a quarter, of which £50,000 will have been spear on the last volume alone. A
tractive blue and yellow freize depicting various processes in chemical manufac ture
Numerous other sections of industries will offer features not less interesting.
The last volume will be the faal part of W. The difficulties presented by this letter are due to the long history of the words, and in many instances there. ara etymological difficulties. One might instance, perhaps, the pronouus 'whom' and who, which have to have separate articles to themselves, and involve a long history and a difficult one. The article on 'who alone runs to nine columns, and if you idd those on whom', and 'whose there are an additional six columns estate will exceed £900,000
One of the most remarkable things about the wh, section is the number of imitativo words, it contains. For example, whu is simply an imitation of the sound of a blast of breach or wind, and "whush" of a soft, rushing sound. Such a Bational utterance as whist, to command dience, we compare with hist busty 1st,"-st,!' husht," and whisht.
PEER'S 42,000,000 ESTATE.
£500,000 FOR THE STATE Unsettled personal estate provisionally worn at £2,000,765 was left by Viscount Allendale, who died on December 13th Probate of the will was granted in New- castle, last month. The duties on the
After making provision for the Dow ager Lady Allendale and his younger children, the testator gave the residuary estate of his eldest son £5,000 is left in charitable bequests.
land owners in Northumberland, was the Lord Allendale, one of the largest son of the first, Baron Allendale, who as Mr. WB Beaumont had the reputa * WHITE MAN” AND “ 19SOLATR,” the country and who left estate of the tion of being the wealthiest commoner in One of the most recent introductions gross value of £3,204,506. The son in into the dictionary is the word whizz herited, apart from settled property, bang, and a particularly offensive form proporty of the value of about 2,800,000. of shell, bursting two or three times like It was fed in 1915
Chinese cracker Hundred Thou- case," so far. as the Dictionary is concern-||
by Lin Hay in his.
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ed, of what one might prefer. It is not The interesting
expression white our business to indicate or preference, man' is an instance of American sing but to record facts for a man of honourable character be Dr. Craigie pointed out that certain
words which were regarded as necessary and gatutal to the language had been
coming current over the whale of the English speaking world. We find it first recorded in the Century Magazine in introduced at some time by somebody. 1863, though that date was anticipated by L is rather triking for instance, to its use in Besant and Rice's "Golden find that the Lords ungodliness and Butterfly of 1817, in which there occurs uzgodly were introduced by Tydall, the remark, a good fellow is Rayner translator of the Bible, in 1528. It is 29 white a man as I ever mew!!!!!
ZeWaring typical that a large number of these Mr. Onione was asked what he thought negative words words which have been of Mr. Shaw's pronunciation of the word quite common in the language for con- isolate as issolate.41 do not taries have been introduced by some understand
he said,why Mr. Shaw particular person as the equivalent of considers the pronunciation with the long something he was translating and accept vulgar, it is what to per cent of cued as words of our own. A late amplá tured people say. He has a night to his is to be found is the term uncarned in- own opinion, of course, and there is no crement which was the invention in 1873 doubt that issolate is current as a proof John Stuart Mill
at
nunciation, but, as often happens in in considerable number of negatives stances of this kind, the historical beas have come to be of more importanes thau ings of the matter have not been brought positives, and more commonly used, be forward. In the Dictionary we have the cause people want to refer more to the word pronounced with the long in the absence of a quality than to its presence. first place, and with the short in the Ungainly, for example is much more second. That is according to usage commonly used thon gainly There bas When Bir James Murray dealt with the been a great increase in the number of word he meant it to be a record of what segative in recent times; people seem he found to be the usage. It is not a to get more and more in the habit of
(Conthaied at fool of next lumn). speaking in terms of negation.
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