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IN his excellent custom of “registering the first appearance of new words and new phrases,” Dr. C. M. Ingleby is surely very careless or superficial. He quotes “survival” as a new word introduced, he thinks, by Darwin. I have been familiar with it as long as I remember, and my life of careful observation has exceeded a quarter of a century. “Impolicy” is equally familiar, having, had currency at least twenty years before the Franco-Prussian war, to which Dr. Ingleby accredits it. He will find both words, as well as “indiscipline,” in “Webster's Dictionary,” edition 1852, and probably much earlier on careful search. “To telegram” is clearly a vulgarism, rarely heard I imagine, and never seen in print.
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S., G. Recent Neologisms. Nature 4, 222 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004222d0
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