PROOF-READER'S PICNIC?
SIR,—Delighted admirer as I am, week by week, of the ingenuity displayed by your competition entrants, I am distressed to find in, your issue of January 13 the point of the admirably written Latin prayer suggested for Pope Gregory so woefully marred by the misprinting, in its equally admirable transla- tion, of 'Angels' for 'Angles'--and, too, to see the date of Charles l's "execution given as the 12th, instead of the 30th, of January, 1949.
In the circumstances, may I respectfully suggest still another 'pithy prayer'--this time by yourself, Sir, as, dare 1 say, yet another 'great perSonage of history'—beginning, in the words of the Psalmist, 'Examine me, 0 Lord, and prove me,' and imploring the aid of a vigilant proof-reader 'to ensure the same'? (Sub-editors arc, of course, notoriously past praYing for.)—Yours faithfully,
F. K. HELL 3 flalhutd Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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