[to The Editor Or The "spectator."'
Sin,—Many will feel indebted to your correspondent " Scot for pointing out this hardly credible cockney abomination in the " Concise Oxford (1) Dictionary," and thus saving them......
What An " Ider "!
[To THE EDITOR OP TUE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your last issue was a letter, signed " Soot," querying whether "hurray's Dictionary" is the "High Court of Letters." May I say it......
Poetry,
EASTER SNOW.* (Written to the tune " Easter Snow " in Miss Ilonoria Galwey's Collectiott of Irish Airs.) MY jewel of the world, she sleeps so fast, She will not hear you, Spring......
" Infinitely."
[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia, — May I appeal to your love of accurate English agains the common use in writing, as in speaking, of the word " infinitely " as......
[to The Editor Or The "spectator. "] Sin,—." Murray's...
do not know anything about the " Concise Oxford Dictionary "—pronounces idea quite rightly, a trissyllable with no " r." Does not " Scot" know the story of the professor and his......
London Parade: National Reserve Fund.
We have received the following sums for this Fund 2 e. d. J. St. Lee 100 0 F. M. Sir Charles Brownlow, Miss Julia Wedgwood .., 10 10 Lord Midleton ••• 10 0 Sir John Wolfe Barry......
[to Thu Editor Or The " Spectator. "] Sni,—in Reply To
" Scot's " letter in the Spectator of March 30th on the above marking, I think the " Concise Oxford Diction- ary " is perfectly right. If he will look again he will see that the......
Boswell's Little Mistake.
[To Tim EDITOR OF TIM " SEECTATO1G.1 SIR, —How possible it is for even the best-informed biographer to err is, I think, illustrated by the following passages on Dr. Johnson as a......
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