Slipslop

... they, consequently, both misconceive and misuse words ; and we are sorry to add, that this childish slipslop, those infantile blunders, is, and are, much more frequently a source of parental mirth, than of parental reprehension : yet it is certain, that such oral deviations, if suffered to continue unremakred, harden into habits, and fix, indelibly fix, the vernacular errors of infancy upon the minds of maturity.

It is an average specimen of the slipslop and real ignorance generally existing upon the subject.

The slipslop which Roman priests, and even the most dignified among the number, are not ashamed to send forth to the world, is something quite inconceivable to those, at least, who have not been nurtured on diet of this kind.

The slipslop which Sir Edward put into the mouth of Mrs. Mivers, the gibberish in which Beck gabbles, may, for all that we know, be totally unlike the language of the back-parlour and of the crossing; and while that doubt continues, the imitation gives us no pleasure.

"So, the modern clergyman still believes in slipslop, does he?" he exclaimed in his most aggressive manner.

Imaginary woes, and sentimental slipslop find no responsive chord; but to the historian, the statist, and the geographer, and those who unveil the mysteries of the physical sciences, the field is ever open.

No detatched evidence of the slipslop of Mrs. Wood's style (and " East Lynne " was in this respect worse, not better, than " Verner's Pride ") will convey to one who has not read the book itself the impression of ill-written English that every page of her writing gives, even when it contains no technical faults.

Plant him in Boston, and his sheet he fills With all the slipslop of his threefold hills, Talks as if Nature kept her choicest smiles Within his radius of a dozen miles, And nations waited till his next Review Had made it plain what Providence must do.