3 NOVEMBER 1906, Page 32

"SUFFRAGETTE."

LTO THE EDITOR Or Tug SPECTATOR:]

SIR,—May one enter a protest in your columns against the increasing use of this ridiculous word in the daily Press Unless the mould in which such freaks of language are coined is broken, we shall be expected to call a lady novelist a "novelette," a ladies' hair specialist a " barbett,e," the girl who serves two pints behind the bar a "quartette," and, by a scarcely greater effcrt of imagination, a lady cricketer, after Kipling, a " flannelette."—I am, Sir, &c., F. B. M.