2 OCTOBER 1869, Page 15

" MAUNDS " AND " MAWNS."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1

SIR,—The writer of "A Trip in a Trawler" in your last number speaks of fishing." baskets Called wrens " on board his Plymouth trawler. May I point out that he would have done better to spell them " inaunds " or " maun's ;" the d is omitted in ordinary lazy speaking, but is, I think, of importance, as. giving to Maundy Thursday the right explanation of its name?—I am,