Bottom Line Sir: Surely `calli-' And Not `steatopygous'...
`Three Graces' who, accord- ing to Robin Simon (Arts, 3 March) `writhe against each other in white marble'. My Shorter Oxford volunteers the observation that steatopygia tends......
No Butts
Sir: It may or may not have been 'stupid, idiotic and provocative' of Timothy Eggar to march a six-year-old girl into his living room to reprimand her for pilfering his flowers......
Double Dutch
Sir: Paul Foot (Books, 17 March) describes Mrs Thatcher's remark, 'Trial by television is the day that freedom dies', as ungram- matical. It is not. It is, however, strictly......
Ashtray Of History
Sir: In his letter (17 March) Norman Stone writes from the History Faculty Library (of all places) that he started chain-smoking `just one week before the first cancer- scares'......
Scottish Lorna Doone
Sir: Paul Johnson chides Thames Televi- sion for choosing Scotland rather than the West Country to film Lorna Doone (The media, 24 February). Without bothering to check its......
Double Welsh
Sir: Here's one for Martyn Harris's collec- tion of modern Welsh nonsense (Diary, 10 March). A garage in Llanelli invites motor- ists to choose from a comprehensive range of......
Letters
Marxist citadel Sir: What's this Roy Kerridge is writing? `At one time, a district was represented in Parliament, not a collection of anonymous individuals. The member for......
A Dictionary Of Cant
MINDED. A word fashionable amongst political bureaucrats who wish to pro- ject an antique gravitas and unassailable authority to camera, eg. 'I am minded to restrict the freedom......
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