10 FEBRUARY 1973, Page 28

Sloppy English

Sir: It's a pretty cup-of-tea when one is forced to admit that somebody's pair-of-shoes is not one's kettle-of-fish.

But life is comprised of such chimeras, or reasonably overall approximations; we must meet up with them; we can't escape; even if we try, we shall but leave our image behind, notwithstanding our looking-glass is a personalised one, and fits the pocket.

I fear Mrs Hagan (Letters, February 3), with the rest of us, will continue to be haunted by the witch Laura Norder so long as the Indira Roffice is remembered and our Majestic Victoria Randalbert remains as a penny-in-the-slot peepshow for wet days.

A. Oswald Baxter

252 Chester Road, Macclesfield,