Note 97 — Chapter XIX · ORIGIN OF GRAMMATICAL ELEMENTS

Cf. Lloyd George’s speech at Dundee (The Times, July 6, 1917): “The Government will not permit the burdens of the country to be increased by what is called ‘profiteering.’ Although I have been criticized for using that word, I believe on the whole it is a rather good one. It is profit-eer-ing as distinguished from profit-ing. Profiting is fair recompense for services rendered, either in production or distribution; profiteering is an extravagant recompense given for services rendered. I believe that unfair in peace. In war it is an outrage.”