Dot Wordsworth in the Spectator on the correct use of “between”:
That might be an end of it, were it not for hatred of another construction: between each (the notion being that, since each is a singularity, nothing can come between it). A good counter-example comes in a translation made in 1856 by John Williams of a Welsh grammar compiled 600 years earlier by Ederyn the Golden Tongued: ‘A syllable that terminates with four consonants, having the obscure pronunciation of the mutescent y between each, is called confertisparsison.’
Dot Wordsworth isn’t her real name, and she isn’t a real she. But she is very good.
2 comments:
I'm having problems trying to pronounce the beautiful word, let alone trying to spell it!
But I will try, sir.
It would be hell for a lisper.
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