6 MAY 2006, Page 17

Freudian quip

From William Oddie

Sir: Roger Scruton (‘An unhappy birthday to Sigmund the Fraud’, 29 April) could have quoted G.K. Chesterton, who prophetically warned against most of the heresies of the last century, and also saw through Freud in much the same way that Professor Scruton has:

The ignorant pronounce it Frood, To cavil or applaud.

The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

William Oddie

Oxford