26 FEBRUARY 1937, Page 21

ANGORA

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whatever one may think of Dr. Rendel Harris' views

on the derivation of the name of Angora, certain it is that its second syllable is long in the classical form, and not, as he persistently marks it, short. So Claudian, xx, 98, ad muros, Ancyra, tuos auctore, repertum Eutropio.

The accent, in. Greek and in modern times, is on the first syllable, ""Awcypct, An'gora," but that is beside the point.—