21 DECEMBER 1956, Page 13

SIR, -1 hasten to ask you to suppress any replies to

Mr. John Betjeman's last paragraph (December 14), for these words are indeed the shibboleths by which we Londoners born of Londoners know one another in our banish- ment. I derive a great deal of smug enjoyment from the BBC pronunciation of Marylebone. —Yours faithfully,