PROPER WORDS.
London, 9th January 1857.
Sin—I read with pleasure the article in your last impression on the subject of words.
Permit me to offer my contribution. The word " gentlemanly " is frequently used. The Rine., newspaper, in which the language is generally sufficiently correct, constantly employs it. Now there is no such word. It should be "gentlemanlike." We also hear of "the olden time." If that somewhat affected phrase is to be used, it should be the "olden times"—
olden being plural. L.
Li reference to assassinations in ecclesiastical buildings, a correspondent from Worcester reminds us of one which we had forgotten,—that of Henry trAlmarque, son of Richard King of the Romans and nephew of our Henry III, who was slain by his cousins, Simon and Guy de Montfort, in the church of -Viterbo, on the 3d March 1271.
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