11 AUGUST 1967, Page 23

The Queen's English

Sir: Addison's sPura-rort never printed any thing which excelled Colin Welch's 'Waiting for Lefty' (21 July); what a pity, then, that it was marred by the omission of an 'as' from the twenty-ninth lirte of the third column.

As to Neville Braybrooke's 'Marya Zelli . . is married to a Pole ... imprisoned for a year. Whilst serving his sentence, she is befriended, etc,' could wifely devotion go further?

Gilbert Wood

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