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The ultimate purist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Extract

The most venerable purism of them all in English has been resistance to Latinate words, and the most vigorous resistance fighter was William Barnes of Dorset.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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