1 MARCH 1997, Page 24

Jarring gerund Sir: Reading Dot Wordsworth's medita- tions on language

is always a pleasure, but I do wonder if the first phrase of a column headed 'Mind your language' (15 February) should be quite so cavalier with a gerund. `My husband doesn't like me leafing through his medical books' still jars on those of us who feel that 'my' is required by sense, as well as convention.

Peter Regent

Windhover House, Woodmuir Crescent, Newport-on-Tay, Fife