Old Words" in "New Circumstances

Jefferson stressed his ongoing belief that in United States, the new circumstances under which we are placed, call for new words, new phrases, and for transfer of old words new objects.... [N]ecessity obliges us neologize.I Nine years later he would reiterate this sentiment in a letter one of founders of American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres (1820), William S. Cardell, a grammarian who hoped improve common language of America and England and, in particular, to form and maintain, as far as practicable, an English standard of writing and pronunciation, correct, fixed, and uniform, throughout our extensive territory.2 There are so many differences between us and England, Jefferson had written Cardell

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  Gareth Evans, Gareth Lloyd Evans•Canadian Review of American Studies•1995

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• Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution

  Lynn Avery Hunt•Politics, culture, and class in…•1984

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• Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

  Stanley Fish•Is There a Text in This Class?…•1982

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• Familial Politics

  Winthrop D Jordan•Journal of American History•1973

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• Federalists in Dissent

  Bernard W Sheehan, Linda K Kerber•The William and Mary Quarterly•1971

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