‘Tuesday,” according to Eugene Suggett, “is too early in any week for a blast of bastard enumeration” — a sentiment with which I’m sure we’d all agree if we knew what he was talking about. Thankfully, he went on to explain. Apparently Fowler came up with this notion in The King’s English (1906) and, according to Mr Suggett, we perpetrated a textbook example on Tuesday in an article about tanks. Today’s warfare, we wrote, “demands more investment in cybercapabilities, space and other cutting-edge technologies”. “If (as it appears),” Mr Suggett writes, “the need is for more investment both in space technologies and other cutting-edge technologies, there needs to be an ‘and’ before ‘space’ as well as after it.”Fowler, he goes on to explain, attributes

Source: The Times August 28, 2020 23:15 UTC