One relates to a vulgarism of language, which I grieve to say is sometimes heard even from female lips.

" "What is that strange word?" said the cardinal; "it must be a vulgarism of New Italy, that 'impossible.'

In truth, the epithet "handsome" seems almost a vulgarism as applied to a creature so superb, so utterly and transcendently splendid.

In an age of colloquial idioms, when to write in a loose slang had become a mark of loyalty, this is the only L'Estrange vulgarism I have met with in Leighton.

Think of the vulgarism "flare up;" let it be "burns.

We have the vulgarism of "mutual friend," for "common friend."

This word which now passes for a mere vulgarism, is the original Saxon form, and used by Chaucer and others.

What put for who or which, is therefore a ludicrous vulgarism; as, "The aspiring youth what fired the Ephesian dome.

6.D. Blair supposes catched to be an "erroneous" word and unauthorized: "I catch'd it," for "I caught it," he sets down for a "vulgarism.

This vulgarism is to be avoided, not by a simple omission of the terminational s, but rather by the use of the literal preterit: as, "Thought I to myself;""O, said I;""The first thing I heard."

It is not only a gross vulgarism, but a plain and palpable violation of the foregoing rule of syntax; and, as such it must be reputed, if the rule has any propriety at all.

Thus, 'I have not written, and I do not intend to,' is a colloquial vulgarism for, 'I have not written, and I do not intend to write.

And among the expressions which Campbell censures under the name of vulgarism, are the following: "'Tis my humble request you will be particular in speaking to the following points.

Some, for somewhat, or in some degree, appears to me a vulgarism; as, "This pause is generally some longer than that of a period.

Or, again, he may omit the comma, and say, "I saw the thing what I wanted to see;" but this, if it be not a vulgarism, will only mean, "I saw the thing to be what I wanted to see."

If "loaden," for example, is now out of use, why should "load, unload, and overload," be placed, as they are by this author, among "irregular verbs;" while freight and distract, in spite of fraught and distraught, are reckoned regular? "Rid," for rode or ridden, though admitted by Worcester, appears to me a low vulgarism.

She did respect him in spite of his vulgarism; nor was she unconscious of the position which, as his wife, she held.

When one of these low-comedy vehicles (named the Crême-de-Menthe) ambled down the main street of the hitherto impregnable village of Flers, with hysterical British Tommies slapping her on the back, he appealed to the civilised world to step in and forbid the combination of vulgarism and barbarity.

A VULGARISM is an expression peculiar to vulgar or ignorant people.

REDUNDANT PRONOUNS.A vulgarism not often seen in writing, but common in conversation, consists in the use of an unnecessary pronoun after the subject of a sentence.

Ain't is a gross vulgarism.

The use of plenty as an adverb, as "The food is plenty good enough," is a vulgarism.

Firstly is a vulgarism.

Its misuse for the adverbs really and very, as, "This is real pretty," is a vulgarism.

It is desirable also to caution them against adopting the too prevalent vulgarism of calling each other, or indeed any person whatever, merely by the initial letter of their surname.