12 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 4

I am all for enriching the English language with new

terms, and I know that Harold Nicolson, in spite of the brilliant success of his " George V," will never die happy till he has seen " doryphore " (what it means, and why, escapes me for the moment) included in the dictionaries of the future. But when it comes to " chucklesome " I revolt, and having read in an advertisement of a play now running that it provides " a thoroughly chucklesome evening " I have registered an inflexible resolve that wherever I spend my evenings for the next twelve months I shall never be found on any one of them at, that particular theatre.