28 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—In illustration of your remark in the Spectator of February 21st that the coinage of words like " Britisher" is due to "some natural tendency of the language," you will perhaps allow me to quote two instances which I have just come across in Mr. Forrest's " Selections from the State Papers of the Government of India in the Foreign Depart- ment, 1772-1785." Sir Robert Barker, the Commander-in- Chief, calls the Nawab-Wazir of Oudh, Shnja-ud-daulah, a " Hindustauder," instead of a Hindustani (a name which, as applied to himself, the Nawab would by no means have relished); and the Bhotiyas, the people of Bhot or Bhutan, are spoken of as " Bootanners."—I am, Sir, &c., H. C. I.