SCHIZOPHRENIC WRITERS
Sir-"J.K.L." maintains ‘that _language is healthier when it holds firmly to concrete words. I disagree. We owe a debt of gratitude to modern writers for reaching, as it were, under the literary wardrobe and bringing from the’ dust multifarious words, Surely it is beneficial if these laconic adjectives do no more than incline us towards the shaking of silver-fish from our dictionaries! In these days of collectivism, 1 admire the original-minded who specialise in rare words, rather than in stamps or sea-shells. If the layman could be introduced to but a few of these words,-we might even yet live to hear the clear morning air described as "exhilarant," thus giving that tatterdemalion "nice" an overdue respite,
M.
W.
(Mangapai).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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