19 JULY 1986, Page 25

Yags

Sir: Following on Paul Johnson's amusing and cogent article 'Knotty neologisms' (The press, 5 July), I much approve of his inventive term `yags' ( cf 'yobs'), which I shall adopt and hope to spread; but, surely, the Navy has found the ripest appellation when it refers to an homosexual as a 'boom jockey'.

James Menhinick

69 North Salts, Rye, Sussex