I trust that "NOTES AND QUERIES" may, among many other benefits, improve
spelling by example as well as precept. Let me make a note on two words
that I find in No. 37.: _sanatory_, p. 99., and _connection_, p. 98.
Why "_sanatory_ laws?" _Sanare_ is _to cure_, and a curing-place is, if
you like, properly called _sanatorium_. But the Latin for _health_ is
_sanitas_, and the laws which relate to health should be called
_sanitary_.
Analogy leads us to _connexion_, not _connection_; _plecto_, _plexus_,
_complexion_; _flecto_, _flexus_, _inflexion_; _necto_, _nexus_,
_connexion_, &c.; while the termination _ction_ belongs to words derived
from Latin verbs whose passive participles end in _ctus_ as _lego_,
_lectus_, _collection_; _injecio_, _injectus_, _injection_; _seco_,
_sectus_, _section_, &c.