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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 the Committee, whether wisely or
unwisely, thought a short title of general import was preferable to a
definition which would misrepresent their purpose by its necessary
limitations.
2. FINANCIAL.
The founders were originally confident that they could carry on their
work without asking for any subscription from the members; and
although the conditions of prices and commodities are now wholly
changed and altogether unfavourable, they still hope that they may be
able to keep to their scheme. If the publications of the Society are
of sufficient merit, their profits should cover the expenses of an
unsalaried staff; and though it shall be optional for their authors to
retain a share of such prospective profits, it is hoped that most of
those who contribute their work will be willing to allow all the
profits to go into the funds of the Society. In the place of a small
subscription, which it is as inconvenient regularly to collect as it
is to pay, the secretary invites donations of any amount, great or
small, which will be duly acknowledged and deposited in the Society's
banking account. The sympathetic response to their prospectus warrants
the belief that more donations will be forthcoming. The Society having
a finite aim may, after a few years of activity, consider its
usefulness to be at an end; and if, when it is wound up, it should
have a balance in hand, the present Committee undertake to pay such a
balance into the Pension Fund of the Society of Authors.
3. PUBLICATIONS.
The Society undertakes to publish a series of tracts on the subjects
which it is founded to deal with.
It is impossible to foresee the quality or amount of such expert
contributions; but the Committee intend to issue at least a quarterly
paper which shall contain a report of proceedings up to date.
Meanwhile the two first tracts are sent gratis to all the present
members. Later issues will be announced in the literary journals, and
members will be expected to buy them unless they shall pre-contract to
have them supplied as they are issued, which may be done by a donation
to the Society at the rate of 10s. a year. The tracts will be issued
by the Oxford University Press.
4. MANAGEMENT.
The original Committee will continue to carry on until it is
convenient to call a meeting of the members to relieve them of their
responsibility; and it is their plan that the members should
ultimately decide the constitution of the Society. Meanwhile they
guarantee the general soundness of the books and publications which
will be advertised on their pages; but under no circumstances do they
make the Society responsible for all the opinions of its contributors;
they desire full discussion of all questions.
5. MEMBERSHIP.
The Committee invite the membership of all those who are genuinely
interested in the objects of the Society and willing to assist in its
work. They should send application for membership to the Honorary
Secretary, Mr. L. Pearsall Smith, 11 St. Leonards Terrace, London,
S.W.3.
6. ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS.
The following is a reprint of the original prospectus as issued Oct.
1913:--
Literary education in England would seem in one grave respect to lack
efficiency, for it does not inspire writers with a due sense of
responsibility towards their native speech. In most European countries
men of letters, and the better class of journalists, are trained to
observe the changes of the language, and to assist consciously in its
development, being guided by acknowledged principles of tradition and
taste. But the English language, which is now rapidly spreading over
the world, is subject to no such guidance, and to very little
intelligent criticism. There is indeed occasional discussion, both in
the journals and in table-talk, concerning the choice and use of
special words and the standards of style; but this is mostly conducted
by irresponsible persons, who have no knowledge of the history of
English, and are even without any definite ideal or right conception
of what the essentials of a good language must be.
It is therefore proposed that a few men of letters, supported by the
scientific alliance of the best linguistic authorities, should form a
group or free association, and agree upon a modest and practical
scheme for informing popular taste on sound principles, for guiding
educational authorities, and for introducing into practice certain
slight modifications and advantageous changes.
The promoters of this association (which calls itself the 'Society for
Pure English') are of course well aware of the danger of affectation,
which constitutes the chief objection to any conscious reform of
language. They are fully on their guard against this; and they think
that the scheme of activity which they propose must prevent their
being suspected of foolish interference with living developments.
The ideal of their proposed association is both conservative and
democratic. It would aim at preserving all the richness of
differentiation in our vocabulary, its nice grammatical usages, its
traditional idioms, and the music of its inherited pronunciation: it
would oppose whatever is slipshod and careless, and all blurring of
hard-won distinctions, but it would no less oppose the tyranny of
schoolmasters and grammarians, both in their pedantic conservatism,
and in their ignorant enforcing of newfangled 'rules', based not on
principle, but merely on what has come to be considered 'correct'
usage. The ideal of the Society is that our language in its future
development should be controlled by the forces and processes which
have formed it in the past; that it should keep its English character,
and that the new elements added to it should be in harmony with the
old; for by this means our growing knowledge would be more widely
spread, and the whole nation brought into closer touch with the
national medium of expression.
The Society, therefore, will place itself in opposition to certain
tendencies of modern taste; which taste it hopes gradually to modify
and improve. Its object will be best exhibited by stating a few
definite proposals which may be regarded as typical.
I. Literary taste at the present time, with regard to foreign words
recently borrowed from abroad, is on wrong lines, the notions which
govern it being scientifically incorrect, tending to impair the
national character of our standard speech, and to adapt it to the
habits of classical scholars. On account of these alien associations
our borrowed terms are now spelt and pronounced, not as English, but
as foreign words, instead of being assimilated, as they were in the
past, and brought into conformity with the main structure of our
speech. And as we more and more rarely assimilate our borrowings, so
even words that were once naturalized are being now one by one made
un-English, and driven out of the language back into their foreign
forms; whence it comes that a paragraph of serious English prose may
be sometimes seen as freely sprinkled with italicized French words as
a passage of Cicero is often interlarded with Greek. The mere printing
of such words in italics is an active force towards degeneration. The
Society hopes to discredit this tendency, and it will endeavour to
restore to English its old reactive energy; when a choice is possible
we should wish to give an English pronunciation and spelling to useful
foreign words, and we would attempt to restore to a good many words
the old English forms which they once had, but which are now
supplanted by the original foreign forms.
Other foreign denizens which are claiming naturalization we would
encourage on the principle of preferring their more English forms. It
would plainly be useful for writers to be acquainted with such
matters; and a list of all such words with their English history would
be a good example of the sort of academic service which this Society
might render.
II. The large and necessary importation of foreign words into the
English language has undoubtedly weakened its ancient word-making
powers; and while all fantastic and awkward inventions and
ill-sounding compounds should be avoided, it seems desirable to give
at least a fair chance to words formed out of English material. Such
new English words, especially new English compounds, need, it would
seem, to be used for some little time before we can overcome our
dislike of them, while terms of Greek and Latin origin, however
cumbrous and unsuitable they may be, are accepted almost without
question. We would discourage such unimaginative and artificial
formations, and on principle prefer terms made of English material,
which are easily understood and naturally spoken by English-speaking
people.
III. Until recent years English writers were in the habit of
experimenting somewhat freely in language, and to their word-coining
activity we owe many of our current and most useful terms. But since
Carlyle there have been until lately few experiments of this kind.
Many words are added every year to the English vocabulary, but they
are for the most part the deliberate creations of scientific writers;
while the very men who should concern themselves with this matter
stand aloof, and leave it to those who by nature and profession are
least sensitive to the aesthetic requirements. We would therefore
encourage those who possess the word-making faculty to exercise it
freely; and we hope in the future that suggestions from our members
may help men of science and inventors in their search for new and
appropriate names.
IV. Although men of letters may occasionally add to the resources of
the language by word-coinage, their main activity is and must be one
of selection. They are forced, for the most part, to choose their
vocabulary from the supplies at hand, and by their choice they do much
to give prevalence to the words which meet with their approval. Now,
believing that language is or should be democratic both in character
and origin, and that its best word-makers are the uneducated, and not
the educated classes, we would prefer vivid popular terms to the
artificial creations of scientists. We shall often do better by
inquiring, for instance, not what name the inventor gave to his new
machine, but what it is called by the workmen who handle it; and in
adopting their homespun terms and giving them literary currency, we
shall help to preserve the living and popular character of our speech.
V. The present spread of education, and the enforcement of a uniform
and town-bred standard of speech throughout the schools of the
country, is destroying dialects and local forms with great rapidity.
These have been studied by specialists, and their value is fully
recognized; but the attitude of the educated classes towards them is
still contemptuous or indifferent. This ignorant contempt is to be
regretted for many reasons. Not only is some knowledge of dialects
needful for any true understanding of the history and character of our
language, but the standard speech has in the past derived much
enrichment and what is called 'regeneration' from the picturesque
vocabularies of local vernaculars. The drying-up of these sources
cannot but be regarded as a misfortune. We shall therefore actively
encourage educated people, and, above all, teachers in country
schools, to take a more sympathetic interest in the forms and usages
of local speech. The Scotch Education Board has recently ordered that
dialect should not be unduly discouraged in Scottish schools, and
advised that children should be allowed some use of their natural
speech in class. We hope that this example may be followed all over
the country. We also believe that a knowledge of provincial
pronunciation, and a familiarity with the richness and beauty of the
vowel sounds which it often preserves, especially in the North, would
be of value to those who speak the standard language, and would
certainly lead to some correction of the slurred and indistinct way of
speaking which is now regarded as correct English, and deliberately
taught as such on the Continent.
VI. As to idiomatic pronunciation involving speech-rhythm. The
literary taste of the eighteenth century, as typified in Dr. Johnson,
consciously discredited idioms which it held to be ungrammatical; and
this error persists. A simple instance is the growing loss of our
enclitics. The negative _not_ was enclitic after the verb, and this
gave us our _shan't_, _don't_, _won't,_ &c. Dr. Johnson held the _not_
to be too important a qualification to leave unaccented. Again, where
prepositions made a pronoun enclitic, the old accent is perishing.
_For it_, which used to be pronounced _forrit_ as one word, is now
generally spoken _faw it_, as two. The result of such conscious
pedantries is not only a great damage to the rhythmic beauty of our
older literature, actually teaching the folk to misread the admirable
prose of our Bible, but it is a bungling interference with the natural
evolution of our sentences, as we mould them to our convenience. We
would trust the general ear in such questions of syllabic rhythm, and
would protect as far as possible the old harmonious cadences of our
traditional speech.
We have no present intention of engaging in the vexed question of the
illogical and often absurd orthography of English. Members of the
Society would perhaps desire some relaxation of these bonds, but we
think it better to concentrate on other profounder modifications of
the language which, though of first importance, are receiving no
special attention. We are aware that proposals for violent change
often defeat their own end, and make all reform impossible. We shall
therefore not insist on any doubtful or disputable detail as a rule of
correctness; but we shall rely on suggestion, believing that we shall
attain the best results by causing those who lead the fashion to
consider the problems and think them out for themselves. We are
convinced that by this means an ideal of self-harmonized speech will
be gradually approved, and will spontaneously create a better standard
of national taste, to which the future developments of the language
may be safely entrusted.
These proposals will be distributed and privately circulated from hand
to hand. Sympathizers, especially writers and teachers, who find
themselves in agreement with the main principles of the Society, and
are willing, as far as convenience and current usage allow, to promote
its aims by their example, can, for the present at least, join it by
invitation from one of its members.
There will be no money subscription to this Society. A list of
members, with their addresses, will be printed under the Society's
initials; and this will be from time to time posted to all members,
who may also obtain copies of the proposals to show to friends.
With so little machinery, it may be inquired how it is expected to
accomplish anything. The idea is that all members will be guided by
the principles of the Society, and committed by their membership to
_active_ promotion of its objects, one of which will be enrolment of
recruits. Many of our members will be in a position to influence
public opinion directly and daily. The fact that there will be a body
of united opinion seems to us all that is needed: it is only required
to marshal the forces.
Should the Society find sufficient support, it would be proposed that
a small journal or occasional fly-leaves should be printed, in which
questions of literary usage could be discussed in detail. The printing
and distribution of useful papers by members able to help in this way
could be easily arranged for by a small committee, which would be
formed for dealing with this and other activities of the Society.
7. ORIGINAL COMMITTEE.
HENRY BRADLEY
ROBERT BRIDGES
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
L. PEARSALL SMITH
8. REPRINT OF LIST OF MEMBERS, 1914.
(* deceased)
Rev. E.A. ABBOTT, D.D., &c.
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
W.A. AIKIN
J.G. ANDERSON, Editor, Modern Language Teaching
S.O. ANDREW, Head Master, Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon
*Rt. Hon. Sir WILLIAM R. ANSON, Bt., D.C.L., M.P., Warden, All Souls
College, Oxford
Rt. Hon. A. J. BALFOUR, LL.D., F.R.S., M.P., &c.
*Very Rev. H. C. BEECHING, D.D., Dean of Norwich
BERNHARD BERENSON
GORDON BOTTOMLEY
A.C. BRADLEY, LL.D., F.B.A.,
HENRY BRADLEY, F.B.A., Ph.D., Joint Editor, Oxford English Dictionary,
&c.
CLOUDESLEY BRERETON
ROBERT BRIDGES, F.R.C.P., LL.D., &c., Poet Laureate
H.H. BRINDLEY, M.A.
JAMES BRITTEN, K.S.G.
GILBERT CANNAN
T. COBDEN-SANDERSON
W.A. CRAIGIE, LL.D., &c., Joint Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
WALTER DE LA MARE
G. LOWES DICKINSON
JAMES MAIN DIXON, L.H.D.
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON, LL.D., &c.
HUGH E. EGERTON, Beit Professor of Colonial History, Oxford
J. FITZMAURICE-KELLY, F.B.A., Litt.D., &c.
*JAMES ELROY FLECKER
W. WARDE FOWLER, D.Litt., &c.
Rt. Hon. Sir EDWARD FRY, G.C.B., F.R.S., &c.
ROGER FRY
WILFRED WILSON GIBSON
LADY GLENCONNER
EDMUND GOSSE, C.B., LL.D., &c.
Rev. CECIL GRANT, Head Master, St. George's School, Harpenden
H.J.C. GRIERSON, Professor of English Literature, Aberdeen
W.H. HADOW, D.Mus., Principal, Armstrong College, Newcastle
THOMAS HARDY, LL.D., O.M.
Miss JANE HARRISON, LL.D., &c.
*HORACE HART, Hon. M.A., Controller of the University Press, Oxford
MAURICE HEWLETT
F.J.H. JENKINSON, Litt.D., Librarian, Cambridge University
W.P. KER, F.B.A., Professor of English Literature, University College,
London
W.M. LINDSAY, F.B.A., LL.D., &c., Professor of Humanity, St. Andrews
R.W. MACAN, D.Litt., &c., Master of University College, Oxford
DESMOND MACCARTHY
J.W. MACKAIL, LL.D., &c.
FREDERICK MANNING
E. MARSH, C.M.G.
ALAN MOORE, M.B.
NORMAN MOORE, F.R.C.P.
*F.W. MOORMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English Language and Literature,
Leeds
WALTER MORRISON
GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A., Regius Professor of Greek,
Oxford
*Sir JAMES A. H. MURRAY, D.C.L., &c., Editor, Oxford English
Dictionary
HENRY NEWBOLT
Rev. A. SMYTHE PALMER, D.D.
Rt. Hon. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bt., D.C.L., &c.
Miss ETHEL PORTAL
Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, Litt.D., &c., Professor of English
Literature, Cambridge
Sir WALTER RALEIGH, Professor of English Literature, Oxford
Rev. G. H. RENDALL, Litt.D.
BRUCE L. RICHMOND
FRANK ROSCOE
Sir RONALD ROSS, K.C.B., F.R.S.
W.H.D. ROUSE, Litt.D., &c., Head Master, Perse Grammar School,
Cambridge
GEORGE SAINTSBURY, LL.D., &c., Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature, Edinburgh University
E.B. SARGANT
JOHN SARGEAUNT
*Miss EDITH SICHEL
J.A. SMITH, Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy,
Oxford
G.C. MOORE SMITH, Litt,D., Professor of English Language and
Literature, Sheffield
L. PEARSALL SMITH
J.A. SPENDER, Editor, Westminster Gazette
CHRISTOPHER STONE
LADY STRACHEY
*R.J.E. TIDDY, University Lecturer in English, Oxford
R.C. TREVELYAN
Rev. A. W. UPCOTT, D.D., Head Master, Christ's Hospital
HUGH WALPOLE
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD
T. HERBERT WARREN, D.C.L., LL.D., &c., President of Magdalen College,
Professor of Poetry, Oxford
Mrs. WHARTON
H.C.K. WYLD, B.Litt., Professor of English Language and Philology,
Liverpool University
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
9. ADDITIONAL MEMBERS.
Hon. MAURICE BARING
ARNOLD BENNETT
Prince ANTOINE BIBESCO
R.W. CHAPMAN
HAROLD COX
A. CLUTTON-BROCK
W.M. DIXON, Professor of English Literature, Glasgow
OLIVER ELTON, Professor of English Literature, Liverpool
E.M. FOSTER
F.G. FOWLER
H.W. FOWLER
G.S. GORDON, Professor of English Literature, Leeds
Miss MAUD HAVILAND, Newnham College
C.H. HERFORD, Litt.D., Professor of English Literature, Manchester
PERCY LUBBOCK
GEOFFREY MADAN
P.E. MATHESON
H.S. MILFORD
J.C. SQUIRE
Rev. H.F. STEWART, B.D.
Miss C.L. THOMSON
Mrs. M.L. WOODS
J. WRIGHT, D.C.L., F.B.A., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford
Mrs. JOSEPH WRIGHT
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