4 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 22

SUPER-SUPERLATIVES

SIR,—If Strix is still avoiding floccinaucinihili- pilification, perhaps he would care to pass on to Guinness Superlatives Limited (or better still a potential rival) a longer word than pneumo- noultramicroscopicsilicolcanokoniosis, It is aequeosalinocalcalinocetaceoaluminosocupreo- vitriolic, used in the late eighteenth century by a certain Dr. Strother to describe the health- giving properties of the Hotwells at Bristol.— Yours faithfully,