Linguist needed for 'socio-economic'
The English language is wonderful.
The word "poor" used in the heading of an article (Peninsula News, March 18) caused an emotive outpouring by two school principles.
Those letters have now prompted this letter.
The words "low" and "status" and "socio economic" were used in both a school newsletter and a letter to the editor in the Peninsula News to describe families and communities.
In my copy of the Oxford Dictionary and Roget's thesaurus, the words "low" and "status" are there.
There was no sign of "socio-economic".
Is it an adjective?
What is the word describing?
If it is a noun, what is being named?
I need a linguist.
Best wishes to all involved with the project that is trying to establish friendly contact between different schools.
This would be as wonderful as the English language.
Letter, 9 April 2013
June Mitchell, Woy Woy