Titlebook: Contemporary English; A Personal Speech Re W. E. Collinson Book 1927 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1927 English

誘使

貪婪的人

Modern Houses,ancy, kitchenette (.), bed-sitter (bedroom and living-room combined), parlour houses (there being a doubt as to the desirability of including a parlour in workmen’s dwellings), all-steel houses, corporation houses (built by the Municipality). We got familiar with the house-agent’s repulsive terminol

tangle

War Words, use before the war began, though known only to certain restricted circles. Two or three expressions I learnt at Bisley in 1909 when doing target-practice in the London O.T.C. viz. the six o’clock aim (from position on target focussed).), a sighting shot (sometimes used figuratively), a washout (fai

galley

Modern Psychology,ertain topical flavour. Interest in hypnotism, which has now gone far to replace mesmerism, was, of course, already strong before my entry on the scene and the terms to make passes, to go off (scil. .) easily, a deep trance and such like in full use. Hypnosis and hypnoidal are still rather technical

ESO

Gudgeon

Commerce,ery superficial acquaintance with many of the specific terms used. I shall therefore limit myself to a few modernisms. First there are the various innovations like filing-cabinets; duplicating or copying machines like the jellygraph (Poth. 182), hectograph or roneo (with verbs formed direct); founta

STENT

Various Inventions,al navvies for breaking up hard surfaces in road-making, vacuum cleaners, automatic telephones (just starting on their career) or such innovations as the monomark system for registering addresses, or again the motor scooter (a development from the child’s scooter or ., propelled by a small motor). T

Cumbersome

記憶法

elucidate