A NOTE ON SPELLING.—"SANATORY," "CONNECTION."

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 term…