6 FEBRUARY 1942, Page 4

S.P.C.E. Corner I am asked to affix the official damn

of the Society to the use of "-like " as a conjunction (" like many bad writers use it "). Most certainly. Double dams hereby affixed.

" WHO WOULD You Puv In, by Lord Winster " (Evening Standard, February 3rd). Single damn affixed—though "whom looks a trifle pedantic. But our business is to make the correct