24 NOVEMBER 1939, Page 6

We have been all too well familiarised with the name

Simon Bolivar in the last few days. The great liberator's surname is invariably pronounced by the B.B.C. announcers with the accent on the first syllable. I had always thought it should be on the second (as with the frequently mispro- nounced Potomac), but the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which gives Bolivar for the Colombian province of that name, makes the man the province was called after simply Bolivar. I stand for Boleevar, all the same.

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