1 MAY 1915, Page 22

The new section of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University

Press, 5a.) covers the words from "Spring" to "Standard," the first portion of it being by Dr. W. A. Craigie and the second by Dr. Henry Bradley. The most striking feature of this section, which contains in all two thousand one hundred and eighty-one words, is perhaps the large group of words beginning with " Squ.." These, as we learn from the preface, are characteristically English, and most of them do not occur outside our language. Many are imitations of a sound, and the effectiveness of such colloca- tions as " squash," " squawk," " squabble," or "squeeze" is indisputable.