22 JUNE 1918, Page 14

"STUNT."

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I knew the word many years ago in Lincolnshire, hearing it often on the lips of an old classical don to express the very cream of obstinacy. "A very stunt' man," he would say, and it sounded singularly appropriate. I believe it to be native to Lincolnshire or Yorkshire. Hideous or no, it likes me better than "neologue."