[Ads-l] Help tracking down a journal named "English"?

[Ben Zimmer]

In Mencken's bibliography, I see:

http://www.bartleby.com/185/
Smith, L. Pearsall: The English Element in Foreign Languages, English,
March, April, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., 1919.
Long, Bernard (and others): English vs. Esperanto As A World Language,
English, March, 1919, p. 19.
Lynch, Arthur: Some Thoughts on Slang, English, July, 1919, p. 109
Pope, Michael: Words on Trial, English, Sept., 1919, p. 150.
Lange, F. W. T.: Geographical Names, English, Feb., 1920, p. 287.
Drummond, H.: Simplified Spelling, English, March, 1920, p. 315.
Ben Aryah, Israel: The Hebrew Element in English, English, April, 1920, p.
331; May, p. 351.
Drummond, H.: Spelling Reform Forty Years Ago, English, June, 1920, p. 375.
Crew, Lena: Words and the Child, English, July, 1920, p. 379.
Grattan, J. H. G.: “Peetickay,” English, Oct., 1920, p. 408.
Ames, Evelyn: English Place-Names in English Speech, English, Nov., 1920,
p. 422.
Molesworth-Roberts, H.: Inarticulate Sounds (animals), English, Dec., 1920,
p. 434.
Bather, F. A. (and others): Will English Become the World Language?
English, Feb., 1921, p. 451.
Navarino, James: The Slavoníc Element in English, English, March, 1921, p.
468.

Some of those articles are also listed here:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015034655343;view=1up;seq=131
Arthur Kennedy, _A bibliography of writings on the English language from
the beginning of printing to the end of 1922_ (Harvard UP, 1927)


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:38 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> If one of the Mencken's footnotes includes a distinctive fragment of
> text that appeared directly in the English journal then you could
> attempt a direct search in Google Books or HathiTrust using the
> fragment as your query.
>
> Garson
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Baron, Dennis E <debaron at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
> > Follow-up: English was a monthly journal published in London starting
> March, 1919 and went out of print some time in 1920. FInding nothing in
> WorldCat, BL, or LC
> >
> >
>

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