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    Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919)
    Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919)
    Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919)
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      Title: Society for Pure English Tract 1 (Oct 1919)

      Author: Society for Pure English

      Release Date: May 15, 2004 [EBook #12358]

      Language: English

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      SOCIETY for PURE ENGLISH (S.P.E).

      TRACT No. I

      Preliminary Announcement

      &

      List of Members

      Oct. 1919

      At the Clarendon Press

      MDCCCCXIX

      SOCIETY for PURE ENGLISH (S.P.E.)

      The Society was founded in 1913, and was preparing to enter on its activities, when the declaration of war in Aug. 1914 determined the Committee to suspend proceedings until the national distraction should have abated. They met again after the Armistice in 1918 and agreed to announce their first issues for October 1919. Although present conditions are not as favourable as could be wished, it would seem that the public are disposed to attend to literary matters, and that the war has even quickened the interest and increased the number of those to whom the special objects of the Society will be most intelligible and attractive.

      A false start is a misfortune, and recovery from its confusion must have an awkward appearance, for which it is needless to make further apology or explanation.

      1. THE TITLE OF THE SOCIETY.

      In calling itself the Society for Pure English it was not overlooked that the word Pure might carry a wrong suggestion. It should be explained that it does not denote, as it is sometimes used to denote, the idea that words of foreign origin are impurities in English; it rather assumes that they are not; and

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