2 MARCH 1974, Page 5

Il hOrn.P S mimicry NI' 'an it really be true (as

Beverley Pecbh°Is' report on Thorpe suggests, the,,ruarY 9) that ninety years after yok-' Were given the vote the Devon by els can be taken in or even pleased Isorneone guying their accent? 11,• Would like to see this upper-class count repeat his act in my home f4,-"`Y of Lancashire or, say, in BelWhere the accent isn't too far

removed from Devon — and then see what sort of reception he got!

Wynne Jolley

Trinity College, Cambridge