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One of his observations was that mispronunciations may come about through carelessness, they also happen because of people’s mistaken desire to be careful… But the thing that sticks most in my mind is his observations to the effect that nobody for years and years has succeed in inventing a completely new word.
“Whatever somebody comes up with a so-called new word,” he said, “it is almost always based on an old one. Modern words like ‘television’ and ‘microwave’ are just two word-bits struck together. The only word I know of that owes nothing to a precedent is ‘gas’ , and I think the man who invented it did say later that he almost certainly had the word ‘chaos’ at the back of his mind”