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Professor Whatmough's assault on the terms "phonemic" and "phonemics" seemed to me, as to others, pedantic. So it is a pleasure to discover that his antipathy to these now well-established terms is not so deep rooted and consistent as one would suppose from his words in CP, XXXVIII (1943), 211: "Nobody says mathemics instead of mathematics; and I, for one, do not say, and never shall, phonemics for phonematics or phonemic for phonematic." In happening to re-read an earlier article of his in the Mélanges linguistiques offerts à M. Holger Pedersen (1937),. I find him beginning a sentence (p. 46) "Ideally the phonemic system of a language. . . . ."