23 OCTOBER 1982, Page 20

Going on a bit

Sir: Perhaps you could inform Mr --1c,,ossi West that Nasenschleimhaut means 1! mucous membrane and not nose-010 (9 October). Could you, at the sametito, inform him that his readership has ri° for and even sympathises with, his distaste je. the county names and redistriburOtioa vented by Mr Peter Walker quite soole ago but that going on and on about. threatening to become a bore.

Frank Pomeranz

110 Manor Avenue, Brockley, London SE4