[…] ‘ear’, ears, and ‘for’, fared, have been extended in modern time by the addition of other pronounced elements. It was the rule in Anglo-Saxon that a neuter noun of one syllable, if of long quantity, had no (nom. or accus.) plural ending. With us, every noun, of whatever gender or quantity (save a few exceptions [...]) takes s as its plural sign.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.38

[…] an individual’s alterations and additions, if not adopted by others and kept up in their tradition, die with him and never come to light at all.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.149

[…] more conspicuous part of growth, consisting in external additions to language, the accession of new words to the vocabulary.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.114

An exigency arises, a conjuncture in which the existing available resources are not sufficient for the speakers’s ends, and […] he adds to them to answer his present purpose […] A person commits thus an addition to language without ever being aware of it […].
- Whitney (1875), a pag.147

The general object attained by additions to language is obviously the extension and the improvement of expression, supply of representative signs for new knowledge, amendment in the representation of old knowledge.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.109

We have […] rudely made one classification of […] linguistic changes, founded on the various purpose which they subserve: namely, into such as make new expressions, being produced for the designation of conceptions before undesignated; and such as merely alter the form of old expression; or, into additions and alterations.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.44