The word "ilk" and its abuses

[jf noonan]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Swift fought mightily against the vulgarity of
> "bus," and T. S. Eliot thought "television" was ill bred (it
> combines greek & latin in one word.)

Gore Vidal complains about "homosexual" for the same reason
(actually, he complains about it for many of the same reasons I
do, but he makes a point of also griping about this).


> Carrol

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Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
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