UNGRAMMATICAL INSCRIPTIONS
(To tho Editor.) Sir—The communication from a correspondent pointing out, in last nights "Post the punctuation mistakes in tlie ncrv War .Memorial inscription, malics =oinewhat disquieting reading, because 1 had occasion, early last year, to draw public attention to the imgrammatical voiding upon the Island Hay memorial band rotunda, which, unless it has since been ■mended, will go down to posterity as a -brin? example of philological ineptitude ° We'ire surely entitled to hope, bir, that the "raven sentences upon our public monuments should be compiled by persons tolerably convert-ant with the niceties or our mother tongue, and possessing some elementary knowledge of the major principles governing syntax.—l am, etc., L. D. AUSTIN.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 8
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114UNGRAMMATICAL INSCRIPTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 8
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