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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3744, 29 January 1907, Page 4

Nowadays, (writes a correspondent of the I/ondon “Daily News,”) it seems to be thought to be a mark of good style when a writer pt speaker uses long words. The Bishop of Bristol gave recently an interesting instance of the possibilities of writing in one-syllabled words. He said that he was asked to write an article on King Alfred, and the editor had told him that it was simple folk, and added, “Use as few longs words as ycu can; you may send up 1,200 words.” The bishop - said that without the slightest possible trouble he sent an article of 1,350 words and every single one of them was a monosyllable. The article so completely took people in that one gentleman wrote to the bishop and said, “Are you aware that almost every word of your life of King Alfred was a Saxon word ?” The bishop wrote back : “ Are you aware that every word was a monosyllable. ?”