2 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 18

Sign of the Times

SIR,—I remember the shock that I received when I saw in The Times a year or two ago, and not inkthe correspondence columns, the same grammatical mistake as That contained in • the winning entry for your competition. The competitor. must, I feel sure, have purposely intro- duced the solecisrri, and the judge, rib• doubt having been previously shocked, quite rightly awarded him the prize after careful .consideration of the more typical substance of the passage.