Miss Dorothea Lambourne

Maintained, throughout the post-war period, a private campaign against the spread of the verb "to finalise". Her final words to her solicitor, dictated in 1971 in respect of her will, were: "You may complete the document. You may conclude it. You may not finalise it. If you do, I shall haunt you." The will was completed. The solicitor reports that he has not, in the half-century since, used the offending verb. The Society notes the discipline.