24 MARCH 1990, Page 25

No butts

Sir: It may or may not have been 'stupid, idiotic and provocative' of Timothy Eggar to march a six-year-old girl into his living room to reprimand her for pilfering his flowers (Portrait of the week, 17 Febru- ary); but those epithets certainly apply to the use of the term 'head-butt' in the same item. What will be inflicted on us next — `head-nod', 'foot-stamp', 'nose-sniff'?

Marc Attwood-Wood Von-Stauffenberg-Strasse 37, 4400 Munster Germany