PHILOLOGICAL DISPUTES.
To the Editor of th« Daily Southern Cross. Sir, — In to-day's Herald, there U a letter attempting to justify the "iuuar lucubration " to which I formerly adverted. The distinction which he draws between "Astro and " Astron " may be all very well to those who are learned in Greek, but I auppoie a fellow may call himself what he likes. 'Iheu Again I may nay auother portion of his letter is written in such academical English that I am quita at a loss what to make of it. Ha certainly muit deso«ud to the common colloquial style, or that of the heavy " penny-a liner." Bat what good purpose is«erved by bringing these matters bt-foie the public, or cavilling over such trifles in the pieseuce of intelligent ment ? It recalla to my memory a verbal dispute that is said to have occurred immediately after the last meeting of the Auckland Institute, when one of learned phihlocjars of the Herald, no doubt the veritable "Corona," d«claied there was no such Latin vroid as reminiscor, the repreientatire of the Cross maintaining that there was, and that it was the oriyin. of the English word reminiscence. The savanq, it ia said, were much atmuad at the pertinacity of the contending parties, but did not chooso to be umpires in the matter. — lam, &c, July 23, 1569. Astro,
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3753, 29 July 1869, Page 5
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