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Posted by Amb. H. Y. Gellman-Weld, CEO on December 8, 2007, 8:09 pm
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etc.,
being abolished. All plurals were made by adding -s or -es as the case
might be. The plurals of man, ox, life, were mans, oxes, lifes.
Comparison of adjectives was invariably made by adding -er, -est (good,
gooder, goodest), irregular forms and the more, most formation being
suppressed.
The only classes of words that were still allowed to inflect irregularly
were the pronouns, the relatives, the demonstrative adjectives, and the
auxiliary verbs. All of these followed their ancient usage, except that
whom had been scrapped as unnecessary, and the shall, should tenses had
been dropped, all their uses being covered by will and would. There were
also certain irregularities in word-formation arising out of the need
for rapid and easy speech. A word which was difficult to utter, or was
liable to be incorrectly heard, was held to be ipso facto a bad word:
occasionally therefore, for the sake of euphony, extra letters were
inserted into a word or an archaic formation was retained. But this need
made itself felt chiefly in connexion with the B vocabulary. Why so
great an importance was attached to ease of pronunciation will be made
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