A penalty, like?

Madam, – In publishing Corkman Joseph Terry’s laudable indignation at a suggested penalty for the superfluous attachment of “…

Madam, – In publishing Corkman Joseph Terry’s laudable indignation at a suggested penalty for the superfluous attachment of “like” to common phrases (November 28th), it appears your sub-editor may have betrayed his roots. In titling the letter “Like, a penalty?” the well intentioned (no doubt) person applied the “O’Carroll-Kelly” rather than the “Barry-Murphy” usage, in prefix rather than suffix. For in Cork, it would be “A penalty, like?”, but in the leafy suburbs of our political capital, it is more (or less) properly “Like, a penalty?” – Yours, like,

ANTHONY BEHAN,

Inch,

Killeagh,

Co Cork.