27 JANUARY 1912, Page 32

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ) SIR, — Surely Mr. Mayhew misses

"K's" point P His argu- ment (and the N.E.D. note) is directed solely to words in -iee, which we may no doubt spell with an "a" or a "a," as the N.E.D. says, according to our own private taste and fancy. But the words " analyse " and "paralyse" have nothing to do with " -izare," but are from Alio). They do not end in " -ize" but in "-lyse." There is no verb gleax(Ce or even iteoatiCe.—I am, Sir, &a., W. H. A. C. We cannot continue this correspondence.—En. Spectator.]