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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 6

[Dryden's authority]

« Missioner » has Dryden's authority, but is marked in the dictionaries as obsolete. Certain writers of late have trying to substitute it for the familiar word « missionary, » around whtch clusters so many hallowed associations of devotion, heroism, and martyrdom. Henceforth, if they have their way, the good old word must be used only as an adjective. ؟Shall this be? We would not like to see it.

Don't spell tea-tree « ti-tree. » The blunder is of almost daily occurrence, and has spread from this colony even to home book-offices. Again we remind all whom it may concern that the tea-tree of the settlers is the mánuka of the Maoris, and in no wise resembles the ti. Once more, too, Don't spell snapper « schnapper. » (We have even heard people trying to pronounce it so.) The word is English—؟why spell it as if it were Dutch? We may remark that these two stupid mis-spellings are prohibited in official publications; and it is to be regretted that the same regard to accuracy is not enforced in regard to geographical names. Such new-fangled forms as « Cook » Strait, « Stewart » Island, and « Hawke » Bay, are an offence to the older colonists.