[Vwoolf] "principle" in place of "principal"

Sarah M. Hall smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Oct 24 06:40:13 EDT 2013


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?




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> From: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
>To: woolf list <VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> 
>Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 11:33
>Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of "principal"
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>Of course, we all make mistakes, but there’s just no end to failures in 
copy-editing.
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>There’s something just not quite right about:
> 
>“This great church ... is crowned by the second largest Roman dome after St 
Peter’s.”
> 
>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”.
> 
>Stuart 
>From: Jeremy Hawthorn 
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:17 AM
>To: Stuart N. Clarke ; woolf list 
>Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of 
"principal"
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>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.
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>Jeremy H
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>From: vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
[vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke 
[stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com]
>Sent: 24 October 2013 
11:51
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>Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "principle" in 
place of "principal"
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>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.
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>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.:
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>M. H. C., ‘The 
Scheme of Things’, NZ Evening Post, Vol. CXII, No. 112 (7 November 1931), 
9: ‘“Oxbridge” … plainly infers [sic] Oxford’; 
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19311107.2.40.1
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>Stuart 
>From: Sunjoo Lee 
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:38 AM
>To: woolf list 
>Subject: [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of 
"principal"
>  Hi, everyone,  
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>I have been a bit bugged by seeing "principle" when the word has to be 
"principal." 
>I saw that happening in doctoral dissertations and (in a few cases) articles 
from well-known journals, or even books from good publishers. 
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>And this afternoon, from Heidegger's Kant and the Problem of 
Metaphysics (Indiana UP, 1997), I found: 
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>"Thus the knowledge of beings in general 
(Metaphysica Generalis) and the knowledge of its principle divisions 
(Metaphysica Specialis) become a "science established on the basis of 
mere reason."" (6). 
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>And now I wonder, has "principle" been accepted as an 
alternate spelling of "principal"? Only I haven't been aware of it? 
>Dictionaries I use don't have such information. Has 
anyone else wondered about this? 
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>Sunjoo  
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