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It’s one of those buildings that purists start off hating because it clashes with the “spirit” of San Francisco, and then defend in the next generation as the very epitome of its age.
He does not say as much expressly, but his characterization of such do-gooders as pedants (p. 215) and purists (p. 223), his persistent placing of quotation marks around words and phrases condemned by contemporary purists and pedants to signify—what?— their quaintness? their curiosity?
The hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris x vulgaris , sometimes called Primula variabilis ) is known as the oxlip . Usually it is called the common oxlip because it occurs quite frequently, but purists prefer to call it the false oxlip since there is a third species, Primula elatior , now found only in the eastern counties of England, which is, for them, the true oxlip . To add to the confusion the true oxlip is also known as the paigle , a name which, in the past, has been rather indiscriminately applied to several wildflowers including buttercups.
A majority of people speak English today as it should not be spoken according to purists.
And ever since, the purists have been more concerned about bad Latin than good English.