Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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BLOW Yourself to a dictionary and UBE GOOD ENGLISH. IP s The Bird : Gee,but Dial fellow, Uses fowl language! I Lasc, me Use Qood English. JIST 1492-1920 May Kj »usi in Peace t V '4 ‘iU.u V i 'p w 7 iu' W, o o 6 C A • • .. . Lookinq jU I V ¥ for BETTER ENGLISH:

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Paxton High School Reflector 25 MRS. R.: Perhaps she has gone to her room—Ansel run up and rail her. ANGELINE: Gee, this is getting excitin' wonder how it will turn out. (Exit Angeline.) JACK: I believe she’s out on the piazza. (Exit Dick and Jack), Mr. R„ Mrs. R. and Katie start for the kitchen.) PROF. D.: Bless my soul, such a remarkable oecurance. Come Pris- c 11a my dear, let us join the search. AUNT I : Very well, Samuel, you carry James Cox. (Gives the cat to the Prof.) (Enter Rosie.) ROSIE (wrapping a scarf about her shoulders): Ch. I’m so glad they’ve gone. I can’t see him after our last talk, perhaps he just printed that to ridicule my little plan. I'll rur over to Hazel s until he has gone. (Enter Dick.) DICK: Oh! Ha! running away from me—are—you? ROSIE: Well, yes—Oh no, of course net. DICK: Rosie. I know I've acted like a silly kid, but you know I'm sorty- can't you forgive me? ROSIE: Why of course, Dick I know you didn't mean it and— DICK (interrupting): But that’s the deuce of it: I DID mean K Oh Rosie won’t you come? ROSIE: Oh yes—no. but you see I'm— DICK: Oh you little Dickens. I could turn you over my knee. You’ve been cookin’ it up pretty raw for me for a heck of a while, but I’m beginning to get next and your time’s cornin’ kid! ROSIE: Dick! SUCH English (after a pause) MAYBE YOU DO NEED REFORMING after all. (Etc. ? ? ? ? ) (Angeline rises from the back of the davenport. She raises her finger with a warring, Sh-hh-h.”) CURTAIN DICTION. The student who would improve his diction (the selection and right use of words), should recognize the most important qualities of good diction. These are Purity, Propriety, and Precision. Purity consists in using such werds only as are at present used by the best writers and speakers. A Barbarism is a violation of purity. T.ie use of “singist” for “singer” is an illustration. Propriety consists in choosing such words as properly express the intended meaning. The use of ‘bring” for “take”, or “borrow” for ‘loan’’ is a violation of purity of diction. Precision of Diction consist in choosing from synonymous terms those which best express the ideas to be conveyed. “Aged,” “ancient,” “obsolete,” “antiquated,” and “old” are called synonyms. We may. in obedience to precision of diction, say “an ancient temple,” “an aged man, “an obsolete word”; but not an antiquated temple, an anc'int hat. or an aged word. Other groups of synonyms that require care in their use are abandon, desert, forsake; absolve, exorerate, acquit; avow, acknowledge, confess, admit; discover, find, invent; pale, pallid, wan. Illustration: “M ss Z. were a charming costume of wan green.” Some Examples of Schooi-girl Hyperbola. I am “tired to death : “t'ckled to pieces”; “cold a; ice”: “crazy with the toothache ; ‘awful glad”; “a perfe tly magnificent time’; ‘a lovely pug dog”: “a div nc moustache.”

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Paxton High School Reflector 27 THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD The Might of the Pen Is Correct ENGLISH