20 JANUARY 1973, Page 26

Sir: You were kind enough to publish my letter on

'Sloppy English ' (December 23) — referring of course mainly to the BBC, not to The Spectator.

I am surprised and saddened to have to send you this further short note on ' sloppy ririnting ' as my second paragraph, which was sent to you in the following form. was inadvertently almost entirely misprinted and lost all meaning and irony: " Mr Weidberg is of course right to mention 'harassment'. At this moment of time ' listeners are also ' harassed ' by ' controversy ' — one can go on and on."

L. Gordon National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW!