To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuixa Day News."
Sir.—The frequency with which newspapers—your own—included—offend against the proper use of words tempts me to lodge a protest to which, as a subscriber, I presume I am entitled. While it is realized that in the hurry of preparing a daily paper misprints are bound to occur, there can be no excuse for the frequency with which certain words are used in their wrong sense. Such excrescences as "the principle people concerned," "the principal of the theory," "the principle object of the change," "the interpolation in Parliament by Mr. Snodgrass, a.p.", "the passage is admitted to be an interpellation," "Mrs Timmins was greatly effected," whereas her husband did not affect the consummation of mis plans" are common and almost daily offences against the purity of the English language, and they make even a deaf person's auricular appendages tingle with
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.