Letters That Dutch Place
Sir: It was gratifying to learn from John Simpson's article, 'English, our English' (16 November), that my effortkto instruct BBC announcers how to pronounce Maa- STRICHT had......
Norse, Of Course
Sir: George Chamier (Letters, 23 Novem- ber) seems even more confused than the drunken Belgian in an Aberdeen bar whom he quotes. Of course the culture of Orkney is not Gaelic......
The Eye And Mi5
Sir: Paul Foot's sloppy review (Books, 16 November) of Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State deserves some comment. Foot accuses us of 'ascribing perfectly justifiable......
Foreign Pigs
Sir: I thought both Auberon Waugh and Charles Moore would be interested to learn that it is illegal to call your pig 'Napoleon' in France. (You may, however, call your boeuf......
Lecturer Lectured
Sir: The spectacle of Mr Peter Levi in the guise of an outraged scholai disposing of another 'daft' Life of Shakespeare is really rather comical. His review of Garry O'Con-......
Sophisticated Argument
Sir: Neil Lyndon has worked himself up into such a state that he cannot tell the dif- ference between debate and censorship (The wrongs of women', 23 November). I find Martin......
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