21 JANUARY 1949, Page 15

A Name There may be nothing in a name, but

what a difference a slight mis- pronunciation may make ! The other day on the B.B.C. a highly senti- mentalised voice ended a poetic description of a scene with an ecstatic reference to the bug-loss, so it sounded. That most lovely flower has a pleasing name when we add " gloss " to its beauty ; it becomes ludicrous when we add " loss " to its " bug."