A Capitulation
ORDS have a way of invading our language whether we really want them or not. Sometimes they do it under a mistaken meaning, like "chronic," and one or two others, and having once got past the first few barriers, they reach a point at which no persistence on the part of purists will stop them becoming established. "Frankenstein" is a case in point. It is coming to be a name for a monster. The Director-General of the BBC recently used it in that sense, referring to the nine o'clock chimes, so one might as well give up trying to insist that Frankenstein was not a monster. The same stage seems now to have been reached by the name of a very popular aria from one of Mozart’s operas--‘Dove Sono" (Italian for "where are they?") which has become thoroughly familiar to NBS listeners now as "The Dove Song," possibly because the gold lettering on,gramophone records is often not as clear as it might be. As long as it was the record that was referred to in this way, there was some hope. But now the studio artist has sung "The Dove Song" from 3YA (on Sunday, November 4). All right then,. let’s give upMozart wrote "The Dove Song" and Frankenstein was a monster., Chronic, ain’t it? |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 9
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