16 AUGUST 2008, Page 22

A kit not a kat

Sir: Blair Worden in his review of The KitCat Club (Books, 2 August) has got his kits and cats a little mixed-up when he suggests that ‘kat’ is slang for a small fiddle. It is actually the kit that is the fiddle. In Bleak House, Esther Summerson, on being introduced to Mr Turveydrop’s son, remarks that ‘He had a little fiddle, which we used to call at school a kit, under his left arm... ’ Narjit Gill

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