20 OCTOBER 1917, Page 12

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RSE,—Referring to the remarks in your last two issues respecting Tennyson's rhyme of "hundred" with "thundered," I suppose the writers are too young to remember, as I do, that ninny elderly people of position and culture in the " fifties " always said " hunderd " for " hundred," and possibly Tennyson may have done so himself. Another example also of the same kind of inversion, I well recollect, was the word " apron," always care- fully pronounced " apern."—I um, Sir, de.. SEPTCAGENARIAN.