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I regret to see that vile and barbarous vocable _talented_, stealing out of / the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications / of the day. Why not _shillinged, farthinged, tenpenced,_ &c.? The formation / of a participle passive from a noun is a licence that nothing but a very / peculiar felicity can excuse. If mere convenience is to justify such / attempts upon the idiom, you cannot stop till the language becomes, in the / proper sense of the word, corrupt. Most of these pieces of slang come from / America.[1]
[Footnote 1: / See "_eventuate_," in Mr. Washington Irving's "Tour On the Prairies," / _passim_. -- ED.]
Never take an iambus as a Christian name. A trochee, or tribrach, will do / very well. Edith and Rotha are my favourite names for women.