28 APRIL 1950, Page 20

SIR,—In the early 'nineties at Oxford everyone, blood or smug,

prided himself on inventing a fresh diminutive on the basis of "rugger," and a new spoonerism. A German baron of my acquaintance, an under- graduate at Trinity reading for Mods, informed his friends that he was making sure of the " excluggel migger." As for " divvers," a story ran round the halls that Canon Spooner,,doing his best to help a luckless examinee at the viva, led him on to the Lord's Prayer, and, still finding no response, asked him in despair if he had never heard that we should

" forget our divvers."—Yours, W. F. LOFTTIOUSE. Old Bank House, Woodstock, Oxford.