22 JULY 1949, Page 17

ENOSIS

SIR,—Mr. W. L. Cuttle, in his defence of " Enosis," implies that because the living Greeks give no value to the rough breathings of initial vowels, modern translitcrary practice does likewise. This may be so in the isolated case of " Enosis," but surely no one would wish to see it pursued logically? One thinks immediately—to name only a few of the more obvious examples—of Elicopter, Eretic, Exametcr, Endiadus, Upnosis, Upocrite: even perhaps of a sanitary science called Ugeine.—I am, Sir,