Dandelion
Sir: I was very surprised to read P. J. Kavanagh's report (Postscript, 9 June) that `the air was filled with dandelion seedlings'. Surely some terminological inexactitude here.......
Laureate By Competition
Sir: Who should be the next Poet Laureate? Forget costive librarians and Angry Old Men. The answer lies under your nose. Spectator literary competition reports frequently offer......
Rhodes To Hirst
Sir: Your cricket correspondent Alan Gibson (23 June) should know better than to quote the 'famous Yorkshire phrase' as `We'll get them in singles'. What Rhodes said to Hirst......
Oradour
Sir: In correcting Francis King's `totally erroneous' account of the massacre at Oradour in June 1944, Mrs Montagu (Letters, 2 June) is almost wholly mistaken. She claims that......
Letters
Pro patria Sir: Does Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 16 June) really think that people of my generation and that of his father, whom I knew pretty well, so enjoyed the 1939-45 war......
Inconceivable Taciturnity
Sir: Out from the whole world we received letters and telegraphs, in which people support our campain 'Save the Sea- Turtles'. Also a lot of daily newspapers as well as......
Sir: Having Spent A Lifetime In The Teaching Profession, I
find myself totally in agreement with Colin Welch. Everything he says in his article is true. M. Grant Cormack 13 Maryville Park, Belfast......
Divergence
Sir: Colin Welch refers to 'malignant clap- trap' (Centrepiece, 16 June). His entire article on the teachers, in my view, comes under this heading, to which I would add the word......
Nig-nog And Nigger
Sir: Before `nig-nog' (Letters, 9 June) was transmogrified into a term restricted to racial abuse, 'nigger' suffered the same fate. The 17th-century English Queen Elizabeth of......
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