Teachers’ College Spelling
Sir,—lt would indeed be churlish to begrudge Sir Leslie Munro his malicious sneer at the members of the Wellington Teachers’ College Students’ Association. Of course they should have seen to it that, in making submissions to a Parliamentary committee, their spelling and typing were correct But hasn’t the great man made rather too much of a mouthful of it? Bad spelling, however, much to be deplored, is hardly a crime. If it were, many people (including Jane Austen) would hardly have escaped the gallows. On the other hand, simple souls and bad spellers, like members of the Wellington Teachers’ College Students* Association and the writer, do regard the frying of innocent people in napalm as a crime of the first water. Sir Leslie Munro’s scale of
values Is clearly quite different from ours, and he really must learn to be more tolerant of us.—Yours, etc., JOHN BUSH. Nelson, July 16, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 16
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