IN THE EYE.
Sir,-Why. do you so persistently "it" us in the eye. Do you set out to make each of your editorials an object lesson on how not use "it"; or has your style of writing got so out of hand that you cannot control "it." Let me quote from your: "Otago’s First Century," in your issue of March 19: It was the dropping of the John Wickliffe’s anchor . . . that started Otago on the course it has held ever since, Nor is it careless to call it a continuous course, If it has not been a straight line it has been an unbroken line, I¢ was plain enough, and so on ad Iffinitum, See also "Royal Visit" of March 25. In one line of an earlier editorial three out of the seven consecutive words were "it," and ‘each "it" had a different meaning. You may, or may not, be a woman-lI do not know-but you certainly have "it." The burden of my complaint then, Sir, is that if one wishes to know what you have written in your editorial, one is obliged to read so much of "it."
F. H.
McDOWALL
(Palmerston North),
(It is worth being it in the eye when it is done as neatly as it has been here-lIt-alics and all the rest of i
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 459, 9 April 1948, Page 5
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