Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919)

"Preliminary Announcement & List of Members" by the Society for Pure English is a formal announcement about a newly formed alliance dedicated to safeguarding and elevating the English language right after the first World War in 1919. This book explains the society’s mission to champion careful language use and favor traditional English expression over foreign influences. The text highlights the society's goals, approach to language evolution, and acknowledges its impressive list of founding members, including famous writers and experts. The society intends to nourish a lively, democratic language that builds upon its past, while limiting excessive foreign additives, and promotes local dialects to restore the variety of English words, and calls upon educated citizens to spread these principles.