SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 124, 26 May 1944, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

Marton: Sorry you don’t approve, but you needn’t read it if you don’t want to. We approve of your choice of reading and contribute to both. That knocks you, doesn’t it? Never ini-nd! Dear Sandy,—We are all surprised and a little disappointed. Pirates cleaned Kaierau up the other day and your paper hardly mentioned it.—Tommy (Huntervillei. ABBREVIATION’S. Reading a contemporary, which shows commendable ingenuity in abbreviations. so necessary in these decs of rationed we have discovered that Joe Cottcrill is a vice- | pres ot Wang St John Free Amb Scy, and is connected with lot uf other Wang bods. What we arc wondering is where this need to abbreviate, a fetisli in the Army, is likely to lead; whether it will result in the publication of a complete new dictionary, whether the next Typographical Award will contain a clause forbidding the use of c ords of more than six letters. One morning you will wake up to read: “Welling Cham Corn welcomed home Wai-Nash from Wash’’ (any proof reader who lets "Wash • gw with a small “w” will be manpowered out of his job, probably into a laundry, within 24 hours). We are also likely to read some day: "Church, Roos anii Stal met in Mos to decide date Peace Con. Stal gave din for Church and Roos. Many For Dips were present. Trio decided to hang Hit, Muss and To forthwith and prevent World Trib from mucking things up." Shades of Noah Webster, why do you tremble so?