Jan
21
Some published letters
January 21, 2009
Letter: Matter of dishonour
Independent, The (London), Feb 21, 2004 by Sylvia Vetta
Sir: We should not abuse the English language. Your headline of 19 February is “Police investigate if body found in river is a victim of an honour killing”. Dictionary definitions of “honour” talk of “nobleness of mind” and “allegiance to what is right”. What is happening to the beautiful young people in some British families should be labelled for what it is: dishonour killings.
SYLVIA VETTA
The Sunday Times December 16 2007
RECYLCING FURNITURE: According to Jeremy Clarkson “the Victorians didn’t buy Georgian. The Edwardians didn’t buy Victorian” (News Review, last week). He is wrong. How else would the Jacobean, Queen Anne, Georgian, Regency and Victorian styles have survived? They were, unlike much modern furniture with sawdust at its heart, built to last. In other sections of your paper you write of climate change and threats to the rainforests. What greener activity is there than buying and selling antiques? I think our grandchildren will regard built-in obsolescence with repugnance. - Sylvia Vetta, Kennington, Oxford.