Repellent

Sir: Roy Kerridge's article on the Colin Roach affair (2 July) rested upon two repellent assumptions, both based on ignorance. Firstly, as a lecturer in a large London college......

As She Is Spoke

Sir: Our English language is an endangered species. We are so prejudiced against Romance words, and consequently so illiterate, that we cannot use the words 'reduce' and......

Enigma Variation

Sir: The sting in the tail of Brian Masters's extremely generous review of my book Elgar The Man: (16 July) perhaps deserves to be half extracted. In referring to Elgar's life......

Letters

Everybody's doing it Sir: From a confidential survey of over 3,000 women conducted this year in England by Dr Tony Baker, a member of the British Association for the Study of......

Brand X

Sir: Paul Johnson (2 July) may be justified in taking a swipe at people who are snooty about advertising, but he confuses advertising with endorsement. If a man who is normally......

The Author

Sir: The author of 'that novel printed on loose pages for its readers to reshuffle' and whose name eludes Mary Renault (Letters, 23 July), was B. S. Johnson. Considering the......