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Speaking at a dinner in New- castle-on-Tyze last month, attended by the Chef Constables of 14 cities and boroughsy» Major M. J. Egar. Chief Constable of South- port, and president of the Chief Constables Association said:
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SOME CRIMES AGAINST ENGLISH
FAMOUS AUTHORS NOT BLAMELESS
FAST JOURNALESE WRITING RESPONSIBLE
(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)
best
prosewriters.
"We used to be thief catchers, TT is probable that no language from our now we are welfare workers. In is so carelessly written by Ingenuity" is quite incorrectly
af every police station there should bejmen letters, as English formed. by a confusion of “in-` ja motto for policemen. I
French authors are far more genious" with "ingenuous;” but public servant:**
careful Their ambition is to bejbere protest would be useless. elected to the Academie Fran-jSo we must admit morale as an caise, and two or three of the English word, not printing it in "howlers" which may be and italics. The French noun for A very uNCORENZON form of have been collected from our which we have no equivalent, is action, that of replerin, which most popular authors, would mors, which in English is an dates back more than seven "cen-destroy their chances completely.jadjective. "Talented T think is turies, was entered for the new It happens that very few of harmless, though it was once term of the High Court
our most famous writers have objected to. Replevin is the restoration to a had a university education. But there are other much person of goods or chattels distrain-Many of them began as journ-worse feats of journalese, which ed or taken from him upon his alists, and so formed a habit of joften escape censure "Meticu Įgiving surety that he will prosecute, writing much too fast. Their lous means timid “Somewhat"
an action against the person who style has great merits; it is lucid is absurdly overworked. distained and return the goods if and vigorous, but seldom beauti-igued in the sense of keenly the case is decided against him.
ful and often incorrect. It is interested is a quite unnecessary
"Intri
the
The replevisor, or party said to exceptional to find a modern innovation. "Of that ik" means. replety, is not the person who re-writer who is master of so per- of that same," Rattray of that turns, but the party who takes back fect a prose style as Lowes ilk is another way of saying
Rattray of Rattray: when the goods. In effect, both parties Dickinson or W. HL Hudson are regarded as plaintiff seeking re-
Some of the best of living pedigree is in Latin it appears as dress.
writers are Americans. such as de eodem. Santayana and Thornton Wilder: Worst of all is the misuse of and we might name others. like the word "hectic." dear to young Lippman, Irving Babbitt, Stod-ladies, who declare that they dart and East, who write correct-have had a hectic time. Hectic "We had fewer mishaps on the roadly and very effectively.
means habitual, permanent, and in my day," said grandfather.
"Well, we have high-powered cars nowadays,” said Alice.
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Your Daily Smile!
"Yes, there is a difference between | borsepower and horse sense.”
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His Resson "Good gracious, Jack!
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How could
Among otr best known can mean nothing else. It is a authors, Shaw and Galsworthy medical term, a hectic flush" is are impeccable; Wells not always, one which does not come and gor though he writes very well when it is a usual symptom in the be gives himself times... later stages of consumption
Medical Words
rather
COMMONL
for
an
misspelling means the artery*
mean
Same Blanders Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 5, 1933 admission of the complete lack
of responsibility behind the dia. you think of bringing Mr. Brown home A short list of blunders by Misunderstood medical words
dinner when you know I'm busy great authors may be amusing, are tribe might end the incident spring cleaning
For some of us example, "recrudescence," which were it not that publication
and consoling to "He's the only man
I know strong Carlyle did not know the differ-means renewed infiammation, or itself is likely to stir up in India enough to help move the dining-room wholly unnecessary
sideboard."
and a fresh outbreak of an epidemic. bitterness
ence between euphaïsm
lis often used most, inappropriate- euphemism, against the Services, whose task A man who disappeared while shop- Two hours of House of Com is sufficiently difficult as it isping with his wife turned up at his may
Fossibly a few of my readers
share his ignorance The doctors themselves are Imons time were consumed last There could be no
more grave home a fortnight later. In the mean-Euphemism means the substitu- responsible month in disposing of the latest blow at British rule in Indiatime the anxiom lady had enlisted the canard regarding the views of That the memorandum itself belp of the authorities in having several tion of a vague or mild expres aneurysm, which
“dilatationTM sion for a harsh one:'euphuis is:
of bargain basements dragged. confidential the Indian Civil Service in re-was
· and never gard to the India Bill. Mr. Wins-intended for.
publication is
the name of an affected style, "aneurism" could only ton Churchill, who
overcharged with antithesis and absence of nerves or sinews. raised the admitted by those who have Jackie watched the nurse while she similes
They have fortunately given up. matter, may have been misled given it to the world. But what weighed the new baby. Finally he He confessed that he had-only is serious is that a London paper, could contain himself no longer.
Hardy uses predicate for pre-turning the good old English dict. "Do you mind telling me what my
Dickens is a mine of word rickets into "rachitis,” seen the document the morning which must have known, the before when it was published origin of this "devastating docu- mother paid a pound for him?" he ask howlers eg, trustful for trust-which would mean inflammation
for
of the spine. сот worthy, complaisant with the assurance that it con-ment" and must have been aware
The affected preference for tained the actual views of the of the complete lack of authority
[placent, aggravated for initiated,
Teutonic words has for actual men who are conducting behind its phrases, should have
mutual friend)
gone the administration of Bengal given it to the world with the
and he can write "nobody will since 1914, but I am still often asked to write a "foreword” to- that it was "approved statement that it was "approved and
miss her like I shall" unanimously by the Committee unanimously by the Committee A dinner dance will be held atj
Thackeray falls into a common somebody else's book. I refuse of the Bengal Civil Service Asso- of the Association" and "en- the Repulse Bay Hotel to-day. The trap when he writes: "Attempt even if it is called a preface, but
Mr. Churchill never dorsed by all but six of the 140 last bus will leave Repaise Bay at ing once to scold her in public.ore civilly.
Rebecca hit upon the plan of wish they would do it correctly.
If people must quote Latin, T theless betrayed less than his members" The baselessness of 1 m usual acumen in accepting that that statement has been suffici-
answering her in French." It
"Cui bono?" does not Lam Hung was this morning ser.was Miss Pinkerton. not Rebecca What is the use?" but "Who description of a memorandum ently exposed, but the injury to couched in language foreign to the relations of Indians and tenced to three months' hard labour, who attempted the scolding.
profited by (the crime)?" It every tradition of the Indian Civil British in India, where the two by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the
Prize Speciman
was a maxim of a Roman lawyer Service Phrases such as "re-races must work together, is not Central Magistracy for the theft of
This inadvertence in the use named Cassius, that if the author sembling the green spectacles easily measured. which the coster puts on his don- key to make him think the wood
ciation."
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writes: "A molecular charge is by it?
shavings
lettuce." when
For possessing 3062 po piu lot-Propagated to the muscles, and applied to the safeguards in the
tery tickets, the face valued of causing them to contract the act Bill, could not come from men
which amounted to $1025.90, a 22. of retraction is brought about." accustomed to restrained expres-
year-old married woman,
And what a jingle in the last Chán sion of views upon public ques-
clause! → Chung-lan, was fined $250, with the tions; they are sheer buffoonery.
Maria May, widow, late of Broke alternative of three mouths hard. The most important of the rock- But my prize specimen is this The Civil Services of India Holstead, Kent, England, who died labour. by Mr. W. Schofield at the addressed on June 1, 1933, left local property Central Police Court this morning,
cut tombs are the magnificent memorial to the Secretary of valued at $6,900.
Cut in the examples at Petra vertical side of the cliff, and ris... State of quite a different charac-
An application by George Gwir- ter, and that document has been nest Noble Tinson, solicitor
ing sometimes to a hundred feet laid on the table of the House lawful attorney, to seal the probate It is a reasoned statement cover and one codicil of the will, has been ing the amendments which the
granted. Services desire and setting their case out with studious modera Babington, Path, 1st floor, Hong "Liang Ngo-lion, late of No. 7
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THE ST. ANDREW'S PARISH MAGAZINE.
Two Military Band Concerts This Month
The June number of the Andrian, An-
in height, the artist was freed the Parish Magazine of St. from the trammels of ordinary (drew's Church, Kowloon, contains construction.*
various items of general interest, in
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once guilty of particular one titled "Afternoon "there- let him lay.” a really Calls," by a Missionary in S. Ko colossal solecism. But even the chow.
Authorised Version contains a Amongst the special notices for Sui Hok Chul an accountant comparatively venial example of the month are announcements of jof. No. 10, Pottinger Street, was the same blunder "because she Military Band Concerts, to be given to this morning charged before Moverlaid it." And the odions (weather permitting) at 9 pan on
QAA Macfadyen with receiv-
commercialism "same" for "it" Sunday, June 16
and Sunday, ing two typewriters on different derives some sort of sanction June 30. dates, knowing that they had, been stolen: The typewriters Collect for the Conversion of St
from the Prayer Book, eg, in the|-- were the property of Mr. Baaz Paul,
by Mr. Churchill was described Kong, who died at the age of 541.- by Sir Samuel Hoare, the on December 30, last year, left authority of Sir John Anderson, local estate valued at $61.800,
Probate has been granted Governor of Bengal, as the work) of three or four individuals. Leung Chan-shi, widow. instantly rejected by the Bengall Branch and by the Central Civil Service Association. Sir Be ginald Craddock and the Duchess of Athol, both opponents of the India Bill confessed that they had long known of the existence of the draft memorandum. The
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Mr. C. Y. Kwan appeared for the worst, by any means. There severe upon certain solecisms, not! the defendant who was remand-was a campaign against "reli ed till Jure 11. after being grant able." which is doubtless incor-
$250 bail.
rect: “trustworthy is a syno- nym, and much better But other adjectives..- which – are formed in the same way as “reli Coable, are allowed to pass. To her Lloyd demean oneself in the sense of to advise that to compromise one's diguity,
has unforho maid's English; but is there equivalent in English 23 we should be, merciful to
SCHARNHORST DELAYED
Messrs.
think its phrases suitable for
Tokyo, May 29- publication Sir Reginald Every one out of the ten Japa-ed Craddock, with his long experi-nese marriages, which are con- Jence of the Indian Civil Service,tracted at the rate of one a apparently hid it in his desk in minute, go on the rocks, accord- the conviction that it was ing to Dr. Y. Nanzaki, director obviously not a document that of the Health Bureau of the Agents. should be sent on and would be Ministry of Home Affairs, who Bren thrown out by the Services on its has just completed a study of the their
y first reading Finally the marriage and divorce rate on the Duchess turned the whole sensa basis of
statistics for 1930,
to ridicule with her avowal which are the latest availa
the memorial had been cir
in Bengal with the "fir
that if assent
terms it was not
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