Trooping The Colour
Sir, —How small ean a mind get? When children are starving; the flower of our
youth is dying on battlefields, in the air and at sea; when shipping strikes are upsetting the whole world, does it really matter if we refer to “the Trooping of the Colour” or “Trooping the Colour?” Actually the latter is more pleasant to the ear and less cumbersome English. I am on the 70-year mark and in my childhood, in England I think we did say “The Trooping of the Colour,” or even “Colours.” Perhaps in those days more than one Colour at a time was trooped, but not now. This year I read it was the Irish. Times and phrases have changed and those who can not accept the changes merely display a complete inability to retire from the field and grow old gracefully.—Yours, etc., ELDERLY WOMAN. June 19, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 12
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