Education: Blood & Thunder-to-Butterfly

University of Chicago Professors Sir William A. Craigie* and James R. Hulbert, editors of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, and their associates, who for twelve years have been working on separating U. S. English from English English (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936), were almost finished with the Bs last week. Issued by the University of Chicago Press was the third section of their dictionary, Blood and Thunder— Butterfly.

Dictionary of American English lists words that 1) originated in the U.S. 2) have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning...

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