Word: illegitimi
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Last month Bob Erlam, publisher of the Whitehorse Star (whose mock-Latin motto is "Illegitimi non carborundum" or "Don't let the bastards grind you down"), decided that it was time to curb Valerie's ticketing. His solution: the deployment of an "antimeter maid" who would make the same circuit as Valerie, and feed almost expired meters with nickels instead of issuing tickets. Her wages (about $90 a week) and expenses would be paid by Erlam, Hougen's Ltd., a downtown department store, and contributions received from grateful nonticketed motorists...
...been the object of almost constant investigations and allegations by the Federal Government. Six times he was brought to trial but only twice convicted. Hoffa took modest refuge in an ancient businessman's gag: he festooned his desk with a bronze plaque inscribed with the dog-Latin motto: Illegitimi Non Carborundum (Don't let the bastards wear you down...
...things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan, 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum'* -Don't let the bastards wear you down-but in politics they do wear you down, as they wore down Steve's reluctance. I hope they don't wear him down any further." Despite his affection for Stevenson, he says: "Perhaps the time...
...means restricted to engineers, this tag has been popular in various forms with members of the R.A.F., the U.S. Navy (Non Illegitimi Carborundum), the Educational Division of the U.S. armed forces (Noli Illegitimi Carborundum) and the Harvard University Band (Illigitimum Non Carborundum). Thoroughly un-Ciceronian in all forms, it must be classed as illegitimate or Very Vulgar Latin...
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