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rope, displaced the speech of Hanover by that of Prussia, so 
also the expressional habit of my community may become the 
universal custom of the English language. 
That thus, in moments of linguistic folly, modes of speech 
are abandoned, whose loss, in moments of after-wisdom, may be 
keenly felt, is indicated by the following expressions, of which, 
in my own linguistic environment, those in parentheses are ob¬ 
solete or obsolescent. 
3 modes 
f 
<{ 
l 
I expect that he Hvill come—him to come— his 
coming. 
2 modes 
1 mode 
L- 
t 
I believe that he has come—him to have come— 
(his having come). 
I fear that he will come—(him to come)—his 
coming. 
I look for (that he will come)’—him to come— 
his coming. 
I say that he will come—(him to come)—(his 
coming). 
I want (that he come)—him to come—(his com- 
| ing). 
j I enjoy (that he come)—(him to come)—his 
^ coming. 
The individual abrogation of choice, which in preceding para¬ 
graphs has been examined in its development into general lin¬ 
guistic loss of opportunity, will plainly, in the vast majority 
of cases, go no further than the individual or an unimportant 
group. The number of these cases gives them however some 
significance. • i I 
To examine choice-abrogation of another sort, supposing the 
individual to have passed beyond the stage of ignorance or dim 
perception of his opportunity to choose, his choice may still be 
vitiated by motives not linguistically worthy, as for instance a 
silly craving for the unusual or even altogether novel. Such 
a craving doubtless may for the moment extend the practical 
scope of his linguistic powers. Ultimately, however, being apt 
to close his eyes to more usual modes of expression, this crav- 
