4 JULY 1952, Page 26

Never Hot

SIR,—IS there any reason why the B.B.C. in forecasting our weather should not give us the benefit of an occasional hot day ? Surely when we are comfortably into the eighties the expression " very warm " is an under-statement, and 1 don't know what is wrong with the simple adjective " hot." Possibly, however, it is not " genteel "; one detects somehow the influence of Queen Victoria lingering in Broadcasting House. Many years ago I remember an elderly lady enjoining her son, who had got " very warm " playing tennis, to put on his " perspirer." —Yours faithfully, C. C. MILLER.

Hedges, Little Gaddesden, Berkhamsted.