Permit me to add my two pence worth to the continued
battle to master the everchanging English Language.The
language is so full of life that it continues to bend
and accomodate changes over hundreds of years without
ever buckling under the pressure of new words and phrases.
Many years ago while working in construction I heard
a south American brother say to another : Carry come
the hammer...meaning ..bring the hammer. The Rastas
have been known to despise words like Understand ,
Revelation and Eternal . Instead they say Overstand,
Itation and Iternal. These twists are fast becoming
standardised usage and are creeping into novels by
elite novelists . This brings me to the point where
in the early 60's Elvis was running out of songs and
was remaking songs of other artists...they coined the
verb...Elviserate...the remaking of an old song.Hope
I added to the confusion..Long live the English Language.
