-Pardon.-One would think (it seems to me) that, if "the language of an American is, all but inevitably, more or less dialectal," there must be at least colourable justification of its being so. If there is colourable justification, there cannot be any reason for regretting that there is not colourable justification. W. EVERY AND EACH.* In "Doctor Indoctus" (London, 1880), Dr. Hall asserts at one time the freedom that belongs to literary usage, and at another, the binding authority of dicta. At page 12 of this little book, Dr. Hall, commenting on But, when each particular is so emphasized," † turns his back on literature and declares for dicta in the manner following: 66 "As the particulars referred to, more than two, are unspecified, the proper word, in prose, is every.' Landor, speaking for Horne Tooke, notes this punctuality of good English." A foot-note adds: "Lord Macaulay is notably free from the error adverted to. Nevertheless, he writes in one place: 'Only eight thousand copies were printed, much *Modern Language Notes, March, 1894. The quotation is not long enough to show that any other fault is to be found with each as used in it than the one alleged by Dr. Hall. |