19 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 19

SCOTTISH SAYINGS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent on this subject is surely wrong in one of his Scots quotations—" A kirk or a mull." The true antithesis is " a kirk or a mill "—in which form I have heard the proverb for half-a-century. " Kirk or mill "- or sometimes " kirk or market "—is a common phrase inclusive of the sacred and the secular, the spiritual and the temporal concerns of life.—I am, Sir, &e., The Manse, Colinton. Taos. MARJORIBANKS.