28 JANUARY 1949, Page 5

My own proclivity for committing howlers being immeasurable, it is

with sympathy and mild satisfaction that I see the impeccable Times slide occasionally into the same abyss. The writer who on Monday produced casi belli as the plural of casus belli had no doubt been thinking too much of his editor. I have not succeeded in tracing a comment to the effect that all the travail of the Lynskey Tribunal only resulted in a ridiculus mus, " or to be strictly accurate two ridiculi mi."

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