In an article on “.English—All Dressed Up,” the organ of the HeadMasters of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has some pleasant examples of how to make a little English go a long way when done up in the best official manner: —“More precipitation, less acceleration” (“More haste, less speed”); “Proceed to the due performance of your prescribed task” <“Go to it”); “You are enjoined not to disseminate reports of indeterminate provenance which have insufficient basis of authenticity and which by repetition tend to acquire cumulative inexactitude” (“Don’t spread rumours”).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 9
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