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"Vulgarism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two samples have already been given: 1. in words like songstress; 2. in words like children. This may be called excess of expression; the feminine gender, in words like songstress, and the plural number, in words like children, being expressed twice over. In the vulgarism betterer for better, and in the antiquated forms worser for worse, and lesser for less, we have, in the case of the comparatives, as elsewhere, an excess of expression. In the old High German we have the forms betser[^o]ro, m[^e]r[^o]ro, ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham |
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