Pet hates

摘要

In these days of quick profit and competitions the failure of students to learn any Latin or Greek let alone undertake serious classical studies has certain consequences that I find singularly irritating Neglect of the classids has resulted in a gung-ho attitude towards the principles of our laguage.Take for instance the almost universal use in our daily papers and journals of plurals for ingulars and vice versa.I keep coming across reports of the overgrowth of "an algae" in our coastal waters or of "a fungi" on some priceless surface.