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| | Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language |
 | | Mob is now sound English, but in the eighteenth century it was violently attacked by the new sect of purists, 42 and though it survived their onslaught they undoubtedly greatly impeded the formation and adoption of other words of the same category. |
 | | The wide use of the suffix -ette in such terms as farmerette, conductorette, kitchenette, cellarette, featurette, leatherette, flannelette, crispette, usherette and huskerette, is due to the same effort to make one word do the work of two. |
 | | Of analogous character are artificial words of the scalawag and rambunctious class, the formation of which constantly goes on. |
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