There seems to be some trouble about blue-prints. Mr. Bevin
used the word wrong. (Here I must interpolate. I have been accused of saying " wrong " when I should have said ." wrongly." Not at all. " Wrong " is an adverb as well as an adjective. Conse- quently wrong is right.) Mr. Nicolson quoted Mr. Bevin and seemed to endorse his usage. Both of them contrasted a blue-print with practical details—which, I was prompted to observe, are in fact pre- cisely what a blue-print contains. On that I am now castigated, admonished, exhorted. Blue-print apparently isn't that at all. All sorts of kind people have written to say what it is. Unfortunately they have not written the same thing. I can only give the dictionary definition: "A photographic print, white on a bright-blue ground, made on paper, cloth, etc., sensitised with potassium ferrocyanide, and a ferric salt, and developed after exposure by washing in plain water."
You can apply that metaphorically as you will. * *
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