31 AUGUST 1918, Page 13

IRISH EXPRESSIONS.

[To TEM EDITOR, or THE " SPECTATOR."] think I can explain the origin of the word "pamphrey " to your correspondent "H. M. W." The home of the cone-shaped or pointed early garden cabbage was in the neighbourhood of Pontefract, in Yorkshire, where it was first extensively grown by market gardeners. In the North of Ireland this type of cabbage became known as the York or Pomfret variety, and, later, by further corruption, Pomfret became "pamphrey."—I am, Sir, &c., Cressing Temple, Braintree, Essex. FRANK J. Cuux.e.