11 OCTOBER 2008, Page 23

Pride and infamy

Sir: Your new acquisition Giles Coren (‘I’m proud to be famous for being rude’, 4 October) says he is proud to be famous for being rude. I wonder what Dot Wordsworth thinks of that. If the English language still means anything, surely the word should be infamous.

Francis Bennion

Budleigh Salterton, Devon