17 AUGUST 1934, Page 6

If we rely on the B.B.C. to teach us how

to pronounce we ought to be able to rely on the Post Office to teach us how to spell. And I cannot think that Sir Kingsley Wood ought to teach us to spell indivisible indivisable, as he does on page xvii of the latest edition of his London Telephone -Directory. Whether it is a habit I don't know, but it seriously shakes my hitherto implicit