PHILOSOPHY OF SPEECH (CLASSIC
Willis, George![PHILOSOPHY OF SPEECH (CLASSIC](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/218/21856077/CHSBZCOP0321856077.jpg)
Excerpt from The Philosophy of SpeechAt the present time the theorists on this subject are divided into two schools, who we may call the evolutionists and the agnostics. The former hold that language evolved from natural cries and ejaculations and from imitations of natural sounds Thus the noun ache is merely the ejacula tion ack! The cry of pain, the pronoun me is the ejaculation ahem I by which the intend ing speaker calls attention to his o...