A MISCONCEPTION
(To tit* Editor.)
Str,—ln your issue of 30th April a London1 cable reports Sir Fraricis.'BelY assaying, inter alii, "I-don't-care a damn."^,-A wonderful lot of misconception exists, «yen among highly educated people, about thii 'damn." Sir Francis .did not. say damn; he said dam. "Damn," apart from auggesting bad. language, is - obviously nonsensical used Jn this way. A dam at on* time was a very diminutive -Continental com, hence the expression "I "don't car* a dam," sometimes, of course, "farthing" being substituted lor "dam." I feel oertain a great number of good people will be delighted to know they can express themselves in the way indicated without being offenders against the Church. -I don't c«re a dam whether this receives publication in its present form or-not, but perhaps it would bo only, right to clear Sir Francis's fair name in seme way.—l am, etc., I CONTINENTAL DAM.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 3
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148A MISCONCEPTION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 3
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