Some Misused Words.
CORRESPONDENT has sent the following sentence from a speech by Mr Baldwin, and asks for an opinion on it: “ A man of ideals was bound to clash at times with those who were engaged in what, for want of a better term, were called practical politics.” The word were, after term, should be was. It is not likely that Mr Baldwin made such a slip: the printer probably made it for him. Students of Shakespeare strained their ears to hear the lines of the witches in “ Macbeth ” on Saturday, and some of them, no doubt, called down maledictions on the background of orchestral music that caused them to miss a line or two. There is a special reason for catching every peculiar word of these eerie old witches, for not only do they give the cue to Macbeth’s hopes and fears, but they use certain words and expressions, as Professor Otto Jesperson has remarked, that stamp them as beings out of the ordinary sort, like Caliban and Shylock. TOUCHSTONE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 662, 16 January 1933, Page 6
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