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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.
Humility is a desirable attribute of those who deal with language, and it ill behooves purists and precisions to turn their noses up at vulgarians and others who fail to preserve the language in its supposedly pristine condition.
This may be more than sufficient, perhaps, to drive the literary purists to suicide.
What the modern purists are doing is fully sounding the old hw in that order.
McPaper (USA Today; some purists consider it somewhat overdesigned, overmarketed, and occasionally arch).