14 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 18

Iconoclasm

Sta,—Although I signed the letter you kindly printed "Iconoclast," am not an iconoclast where language is concerned, and I beg to protest at being made responsible for the use of the word (not to be found in the dictionary) impractical, which I take to be a horrible hybrid of Impractical and impracticable with the meaning of neither. I have noticed its use too often in other papers, but I hope the Spectator will take this opportunity of repudiating it, if not of donning sackcloth and ashes !—Yours faithfully,

ICONOCLAST.