22 OCTOBER 1910, Page 18

" EATAGE."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—The word "eatage " is the -only word used in this. quarter of the country (Yorkshire) to signify pasturage. At this very moment there is a poster re the "eatage " of our cricket field stuck on one of the stations in the village.--I

[Our correspondent's testimony is conclusive as regards: local usage, but does not, in our opinion, justify the use of such a word in a passage written in literary English.—En. Spectator.]