July 1, 2014 Two: Words That Are Not Words Belittle may look like a fine old English word, but it has the whiff of cheap backwoods neologism to it. It was coined in the early 1780s by Thomas Jefferson, shortly after the American Revolution; a time when there was a marked tendency on the part of some residents of the United Kingdom to cast aspersions at our country. All Excerpts From Shea, Ammon. “Bad English.” Penguin Group, USA, 2014-06-03. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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