<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">There was an interview on Radio 4 yesterday with a Scotsman who thinks that we are all too fussy about English grammar, and that phrases such as 'most beautifullest' are quite acceptable because Shakespeare used these constructions. The opposing view was that Shakespeare was writing poetry. Downward spiral?<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com><br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> woolf list <VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 24 October 2013, 11:33<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of "principal"<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6357747453"><style type="text/css">#yiv6357747453 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style><div dir="ltr">
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<div>Of course, we all make mistakes, but there’s just no end to failures in
copy-editing.</div>
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<div>There’s something just not quite right about:</div>
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<div>“This great church ... is crowned by the second largest Roman dome after St
Peter’s.”</div>
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<div>In his TV show, Dave Gorman pointed out the faux spectrum, as in something
like “She has taken all the great tragic roles, from Ophelia to the Duchess of
Malfi”.</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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<div style=""><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no" ymailto="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no" target="_blank" href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no">Jeremy Hawthorn</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:17 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" ymailto="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" ymailto="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">woolf list</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of
"principal"</div></div></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma;COLOR:#000000;DIRECTION:ltr;">And
another one. In the last week I have seen "interred" used where "interned" was
correct, and vice-versa. Thus people of Japanese descent were interred during
WW2, and the body was interned after the funeral.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Jeremy H<br clear="none">
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[vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke
[stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com]<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> 24 October 2013
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<div>The 2 words are quite different, but I admit that I have to concentrate
when typing them to make sure I’ve chosen the right one! I don’t think
they have (yet?) become interchangeable.</div>
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<div>Unlike “imply” and “infer”: in the Antipodes, even in scientific papers,
the words are used interchangeably, although I was surprised to find the use as
early as 1931, e.g.:</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="">M. H. C., ‘The
Scheme of Things’, NZ <i>Evening Post</i>, Vol. CXII, No. 112 (7 November 1931),
9: ‘“Oxbridge” … plainly infers [<i>sic</i>] Oxford’;
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19311107.2.40.1</span></font></div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="abgrund@naver.com" ymailto="mailto:abgrund@naver.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:abgrund@naver.com">Sunjoo Lee</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:38 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of
"principal"</div></div></div>
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<div>Hi, everyone, </div>
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<div>I have been a bit bugged by seeing "principle" when the word has to be
"principal." </div>
<div>I saw that happening in doctoral dissertations and (in a few cases) articles
from well-known journals, or even books from good publishers. </div>
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<div>And this afternoon, from Heidegger's <i>Kant and the Problem of
Metaphysics</i> (Indiana UP, 1997), I found: </div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">"Thus the knowledge of beings in general
(<i>Metaphysica Generalis</i>) and the knowledge of its principle divisions
(<i>Metaphysica Specialis</i>) become a "science established on the basis of
mere reason."" (6). </div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">And now I wonder, has "principle" been accepted as an
alternate spelling of "principal"? Only I haven't been aware of it? </div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">Dictionaries I use don't have such information. Has
anyone else wondered about this? </div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">Sunjoo </div></div>
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