Abstract
A quarrel is being carried on between two groups of extremists in language. One insists that language should be kept "pure", while the other says that language is an organism, and lakes its shape without any control from us. Most of us range between these positions of dogmatic absolutism, BUl everyone generally agrees upon one point that English language should be successfully taught. Those who look to the conventional rules of grammar, lo dictionaries, to lists of frequently mispronounced words as absolute authorities, are againsl all liberalism in language. The "liberal" attitude towards language, is directly in opposition lo the tenets and practices of the purists,
