5 JANUARY 1929, Page 24

THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS: ,In your issue of December

29th, I note that some readers have remonstrated with Mr. Lubbock for using the contemp: tuous word " windjammer," and the writer states that thiS word cannot be traced back more than -fifty years. Forty- five years ago at least when sweethearts were referred to as charmers, we called the clippers, " wind charmers," and I consider the other a most contemptible sacrilege, but still a very easy corruption. There must be plenty of sailors still living who can corroborate this.—ALF.x. M. GLASSFORD, Cloud Farm, Glossop.