10 OCTOBER 1970, page 18

Commas And Hyphens

Sir: As some examples of oral mal- practice got omitted from my remarks on the Hyphens-Are Obscene doctrine last week, which made the next sentence a bit mysterious, perhaps you......

Letters To The Editor

From: B. L. Stapleton. Douglas W. Franklin, Michael Bassett, S. F. Hagan, Louis Claiborne, F. R. Lyon, Daniel Armwrighter. V. W. S. Leatherdale, John Palmer, P. N. L. Lycett, C.......

On The Motorways

Sir: From his opening proposition that road accidents can be related to the product of mass by velocity Mr Oliver Stewart arrives at vs hat seems to be the neat conclusion that......

Demeaning The Law

Sir: Among the penalties of read- ing oneself in print is discovering errors, one's own and the printer's. My own mistakes I leave to others to point up, but I must correct a......

Spider In Loo

Sir: My own experience suggests that it is premature of your Note Book to conclude (3 October) that spiders fall into baths from ceilings rather than emerge from the waste-......

I Am Me, And Not Mr Ingrams

Sir: I read in that scurrilous gos- sip-sheet written by one calling himself Mr PHS (presumably after Printing House Square, where I understand the Times is printed; and......

Spider In Bath Again

Sir: Spiders drop—or creep—all over the house: but they cannot get out of baths and wash-basins again, which is why we notice them there! V. W. S. Leatherdale 31 Bertie Road,......

In The Groove

Sir: Dr Rowan Wilson, writing on change of jobs in middle life (26 September) ignores historical bias in his evidence. People born between (approxi- mately) 1905 and 1917 are......