Mr Jack Alexander, in a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, remarked that the Americans commit felonious assault on the language, and said: 'I really don't think that the British, in their hearts, forgive us for this, and I don't know why they should. It is their language and we have done it wrong.' There is something in this, but, for my own part, it is not the American modifications of the English language which annoy me. I find much American speech very pleasant to listen to, and