[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sria,—" Yep ! "
Mr. St. John Ervine's article on American English, is largely accurate and : highly interesting. But an American mother will usually say " Stop it ! " to a child rather than "......
-falstaff's Death Words [to The Editor' Of The...
before me a copy of Shakespeare, edited by the late Charles Knight, and I find that he approves the text of the Second Folio, as published by the late Mr. Payne Collier, in......
The English Sunday
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The recent 'debate in the National Assembly of the Church of England has once' more 'raised the question, What is Sunday in future to be......
Broadcasting Birth-control [to The Editor Of The...
I said on the subject of birth-control during the S IR ,—As there appears to be much misconception in regard broadcast debate on " Is Science' Bad for the World ? " on November......
James Augustine Cresswell Atkins - • [to' The Editor Of
the Spgc-rkrou.] • • SIR,—May I, on behalf of the Staff of the English-Speaking Union, express the deepest sympathy with Mr. arid Mrs. J. B. Atkins in the loss of their only......
American English [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...
- St. John Ervine's very interesting letter on this topic in your issue of last week he suggests- that the American affirmative " yah " is a corruption of the word " yes." I am......
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