The Pedants' Society
Minutes of the Third Ordinary General Meeting of 1953
Held at the Society's rooms, Bedford Square, on Tuesday, the 9th day of June, at 7.00 p.m.
Present: The President (Sir Hereward Coxon), the Secretary, and four Fellows.
Apologies: None received.
Minutes of the previous meeting: Read. Accepted without amendment. The Secretary records this as the first such occurrence in the Society's history.
Item 1. The proper position of the apostrophe in "1950s". The Chair invited debate. There was no debate. The motion was put. Carried, 6–0.
Item 2. The matter of the Society's correspondence with The Times. The Secretary reported that no letters had been sent in the period since the previous meeting, no Fellow having found cause for a letter. The matter was noted.
Item 3. The Society's standing rebuke to the use of "alright". The Secretary read the standing rebuke. No Fellow proposed an amendment. The standing rebuke was reaffirmed by acclamation.
Any Other Business. Mrs Plumb (#00098, née Carraway) noted that the meeting had concluded its full agenda within forty minutes. The Chair acknowledged the observation. The Chair adjourned the meeting at 7.41 p.m.
Date of next meeting: Tuesday, 8th September, 7.00 p.m. The Curator's note: the next meeting was attended by twenty-eight Fellows. The Society's quiet did not persist.
Transcribed by the Curator, by hand, on a typewriter, with the index finger of the right hand only, on the principle of error reduction. Errors identified in the original have been corrected and the corrections recorded in marginal notes. Errors identified in the transcription may be reported to the Errors Register.