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I was astonished to see the title - "Pathetic errand" - be used by a non-tabloid newspaper for the parade in which banners of disbanded "Irish" regiments were taken to their Last Post in the British Army's cathedral. That was 1922 or so. I was taught that pathetic in English means "so lame that...

There is language drift. And changes in ortography. So, after even 50 years books or newspaper articles can be difficult to understand, let alone over a hundred. Especially by "not the brightest: amongst the "not so well educated". Average 18 year olds in an average school are indubitably such a...