Every one knows an Americanism, at present, when he sees it; how long that will be true is a more anxious question. The King's English (1906)
Is the function of newspapers to force upon us against our will the buying of French dictionaries? The King's English (1906)
The difficulty is that some French, Latin, and other words are now also English, though the fiction that they are not is still kept up by italics and (with French words) conscientious efforts at pronunciation. The King's English (1906)
What a writer effects by using these ornaments is to make us imagine him telling us he is a wise fellow and one that hath everything handsome about him, including a gentlemanly acquaintance with the French language. The King's English (1906)
Kipling...and his school are americanizing us. His style exhibits a sort of remorseless and scientific efficiency in the choice of epithets and other words that suggests the application of coloured photography to description; the camera is superseding the human hand. The King's English (1906)