19 AUGUST 1905, Page 15

MISUSED WORDS.

(To TES EDITOR OF THS SPECTATOR:1

Sra,—Some of your correspondents, who have recently been writing about the wrong use of words, may possibly find cause to rejoice with me over the following contribution to a leading London daily :—" I once heard a Spaniard shake his head over the present Queen of Spain."—I am, Sir, &c.,

F. D. B.