27 OCTOBER 1917, Page 15

" COLLY WESTON."

(TO THE EDITOR or Tao " SPECTATOR.") Snt,—When I was a boy in Cheshire sixty years ago "Colly West " (not " Weston "I was a term often used, and perhaps I. now. It was used to a person who was seen to be going to a place or doing anything diametrically opposite to the way he should go or it should be done. For instance, if a man were seen to be mounting a horse on the off side, he would be told he wee " getting on all Colly West." I never heard the derivation of the word

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