16 JULY 1988, page 47

Most Off-putting

ONLY last Sunday, Perry Worsthorne planted an unabashed 'forsooth' bang in the middle of his leading article, and it was fascinating to watch it take flower.'Perry's provocative......

Afore Ye Go

Leaves from the commonplace book of Wallace Arnold THAT estimable wordsmith, the blessed Philip Howard, has produced another wholly agreeable tome on the toing and froing of......

Forsooth Saga

THUS to the 'forsooth' half of Winged Words. In the Eighteenth Century, it emerges, 'forsooth' was not a word in the strictest sense at all, but a not uncommon Christian name......