Great  latitude  is  allowed  in  the  formation  of  new  words
from  words  in  present  use,  since  it  is  by  such  j^^^^  ^^^^^
changes  that  a  language  grows.  '•'°'^^-

The  noun  mob  may  have  been  justly  objected  to  while  the  ques-
tion of  its  adoption  was  open  ;  but  when  once  it  was  established,
to  mob,  mobbish,  mob-rule,  and  mob-law  naturally  followed.  After  gas
came  into  general  use,  —  the  word  with  the  thing,  —  it  was  neces-
sary, as  well  as  natural,  to  form  derivatives  like  gai^eous  and  gas-
ometer. Other  instances  are :  to  coal,  to  steam,  to  experience,  to  pro-
gress, to  supplement,  gfted,  talented.  Of  these  the  last  five  met,  if
indeed  they  do  not  still  meet,  great  opposition.
"  One  verb,  that  has  come  to  us  within  the  last  four  years  from
the  American  mint,  is  'to  interview.'  Nothing  can  better  express
the  spirit  of  our  age,  ever  craving  to  hear  something  new.  The
verb  calls  up  before  us  a  queer  pair  :  on  the  one  side  stands  the
great  man,  not  at  all  sorry  at  the  bottom  of  his  heart  that  the  rest
of  mankind  are  to  learn  what  a  fine  fellow  he  is;  on  the  other
side  fussily  hovers  the  pressman,  a  Boswell  who  sticks  at  nothing
in  the  way  of  questioning,  but  who  outdoes  his  Scotch  model  in
being  wholly  unshackled  by  any  weak  feeling  of  veneration."  ^

Whatever  the  need  of  to  intervievj,  there  is  nothing  to
be  said  in  favor  of  many  vulgar  substitutes  for

■^  "  Vulgarisms.
expressions  in  good  use.     For  example  :  —

A.  steal,  the  try,'^  educationalist."  speculatist,  prerentatwe,  ruinn'
tion,  confiiction  8  (conflict),  cablegram,"  rlectmcution,^  reportorial,^
managerial,"  informational,  in  cotn-se*  (of  course),  ^rts/?/ 2  (tasteful),

^  Oliphant:  Standard  English,  chap.  vi.
