"OF THAT ILK"
Sir-In your issue of December 26 in the Things to Come items, you mention 2YD presenting a programme featuring Harry Gordon, Dave Willis and "others of the same ilk." Such a solecism may be ignored in the daily Press, but not in a paper professing to be cultural. "Of that ilk" means "of that same" used in connection with a man whose name is the same ‘as that of his ancestral estate. It is permissible to say "Macleod of that ilk" rather than "Macleod of Macleod." | I would, however, like the opinion of some authority to support me, as I am’ relying on my memory.
A.
F.
(Westport).
(Qur correspondent’s memofy is a good one. This is what Fowler says in his Dictionary of Modern English Usage: ‘"Iik means same, it does not mean family or ‘kind or set or name. Of that ilk is a form constructed for the case in which proprietor and property have the same name; the Knockwinnocks of that ilk means the Knockwinnocks of Knockwinnock. The common maltreatments of the phrase are partly unconscious and due to ignorance of the meaning of ilk, and partly facetious; indulgence in such worn-out humour is much less forgivable’ than for an Englishman not- to know what a Scotch word means.’’-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 5
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