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Show The Purist at Large We direct th ; attention of our grammar gram-mar sharps to the fiat statement by the editor of. the London Saturday Review Re-view that "there are no such words in English as 'reliable' and 'laughable,' 'laugh-able,' and no scrupulous writer would use them or any similar compounds of 'able' with Intransitive verbs." The abovet dictum was brought out by a letter f. jm a correspondent who said that the late Provost of Trinity college, Dublin, did not like the word "reliable," and one day at lunch observed ob-served that since you cannot rely a thing, the adjective should be "rely-on-ahle." "That," replied a friend prescn "Is a very laugh-at-able remark." Boston Transcript. |