CONTENTS 1
Ⅰ.Learned Words and Popular Words…………………………………………………Greenough and Kittredge 1
Ⅱ.How We Kept Mother's Day…Stephen Leacock 13
Ⅲ.Heat…………………………………Frank Norris 25
Ⅳ.Jimmie Higgins William Z.Foster 38
Ⅴ.The First and the Last…………John Galsworthy 46
Ⅵ.Dockers Beware!…………………Harry Pallitt 86
Ⅶ.A Mysterious Visit………………Mark Twain 93
Reference Materials On Big Words…………………A.G.Gardiner 107
The Case for Long,Hard Words…………………………………………S.Stephenson Smith 108
The“Jolly George”Incident…Harry Pollitt 110