12 JANUARY 1991, Page 19

Of cars and crows

Sir: May I add to the examples of fractured English (Letters, 8 December) from the Middle East?

While travelling in Morocco some years ago, in Tangiers, my husband and I re- lished the sight of a garage called Shady Motors and a restaurant named The Car- rion.

Ruth Campbell

7 Coolabah Avenue, Greenwich 2065, Australia