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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —"C011nyWeSt " is an

expression known in Lancashire, and in my experience used to denote the position of a building which does not stand in a line with a road or adjacent building. In directing a stranger to a cottage situated at an angle to the road a countryman would probably say that " it stands a bit connywest like to the road." If this is a variant of the Northamptonshire idiom, I should imagine the village of Colly Weston to be very irregularly built, the houses standing more or lees higgledy-

piggledy to each other.—I am, Sir, &c., T. L. W.