15 JANUARY 1954, Page 16

THE NOBLE TOWN

SIR,-1 have just noticed, in a letter in the Spectator of December 25th, the old fallacy of Edinburgh's name deriving from Edwin repeated once more. The prefix is British " Eidyn." Sec Waton's " Celtic Place Names of Scotland," corroborated by Ekwall and other modern philologists.--Yours faithfully,

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