7 NOVEMBER 1947, Page 5

A word more on " allergic." Some English dictionaries, I

am told, -do fulfil expectations. Of the selection sent me I find the Little Oxford Dictionary (my Concise O.D. is silent on "allergic ") most to the point. Its entry is ALLERGY—Condition marked by a different reaction on a re-infection.

ALLERGIC—Having this condition ; (colloq.) antipathetic to.

It is only the colloq. that interests most of us. Jauu.s.