'Sit' or Set?'

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 402, 14 September 1889, Page 3

'Sit' or Set?'

A whiter in the ' Christian, ' sends up Mns* little rockefto shed light upon the confusion existing in the minds 6f many 'very'weU'educated people in regard to the use 6Jf the two w6rds ' sit ' and 'set,' a con. fusion similar to thab which seems to attend upon the choice of saying • will 'oi* 'shall:—" • • A man, or .woman either, cari'set a hen, 'although they cannot sib hor, neither can they set on her, although the old hen might 'sit on them } by the' hour if they would allow. A man cannot set 1 oh the wash bench, but; ,116 could seb^the' ba'din on, it, and neither the basin 'nor the granimarians would 6bject. -He 'could sib' on the dog's tail if the "flog ,w* ere willing, or'he might seb his foot on ib. But if he should set on the aforesaid tail or sit his foot thei'e the grammarians as well as the dog would ho^l. And ycb, strange as ib may seem, ' the man might seb tho tail aside arid then sib down; arid neither be asbailed by the do£ nor tfee l .([ "