[to The Editor Op The " Spectator.") Sir, —may I Add
as another example of " Continental English" a notice seen in the dining-room of an hotel at Lugano in 1912 ? "Guests are requested to be in time for meals, otherwise they will......
Synthetic Indigo And Dyes.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT1TGR:1 S1R,—I have seen in the Spectator and elsewhere advertisements and comments on indigo and dyes produced in England, and the references are......
[to The Editor Op The " Spectator.")
SIR, —My mother once called on a lady in a German town who took a " select number " of resident pupils. A sister of mine was to be one. The housekeeper, however, received my......
(to The Editor Of The " Spectator.")
Sta,—Some years ago the catalogue of pictures in a well-known church in Venice contained the following translations from Italian: (1) " Moise who spring the water "; (2) "......
(to The Editor Of The " Spectator.") Stu,—if You Are
still taking interest in mistranslations, I can vouch for the following one: Donnez - vows la peine de you: asseoir. Translation : " Does it hurt you to sit down ? "—I am,......
Poetry.
THE DEBT. Tsar have given their all for England! Never now Will they have joy in meadows and green lanes, Gather the 1ia-rvest, guide the quiet plough, Go singing homeward as......
" Howlers."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Snt.—The following examples of Continental English may interest your readers :—Over a letter-box in Paris: " Intorpreturs Spot- ring all......
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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode......
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