3 SEPTEMBER 1948, Page 17

PASSIVE RESISTANCE

SIR,—Is Janus, always rightly critical of slipshod English, to be per- mitted to say, "I have just been sent from Wellington a wrapper . . ." without remark? He had only to say "I have just received a wrapper," or "a wrapper has just been sent to me." The Army jargon, "Each man has been issued with a this, that or the other," might well be left to its illiterate users ; one expects better of a purist than the deliberate adoption of such a barbarism.—Yours, &c., T. HENRY JONES. • Brtmffynnan, Towyn, Merioneth.

[Janus writes: What is wrong ? To say, for example, "I Was sent a gold watch for Christmas" is perfectly correct.]