19 AUGUST 1949, Page 18

POUGHER OF LEICESTER

SIR,—If your correspondents arc in any real doubt as to the pronunciation of the name Pougher, I can resolve it for them quite authoritatively, having often drunk Mr. Poughcr's beer with him over the bar of his pub on what had been (and is now again) the Leicestershire county cricket ground. The name is fairly common in Leicestershire, is often spelt Puffer and is always so pronounced.—Yours faithfully, C. H. AUSTIN. 38 Aberdare Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.6.