Orgy
Sir: While appreciating that your typeset- ters and proof-readers are likely to have led, as I have myself, a more sheltered life than either Miss Barbara Skelton or the late King Farouk, I was vexed and embar- rassed to see that, in a book review (The Spectator, 26 September) in which I had complained bitterly of misprints by pub- lishers and/or their authors, they had taken it upon themselves to bowdlerise my clear- ly typed statement that, in the royal bedroom, 'three (3) was nothing like a crowd' into 'there was nothing like a crowd', thus making incomprehensible nonsense of the succeeding words 'and partouses were. . . de rigueur' Your Col- lins French-English dictionary gives 'orgy' for partouse and I never yet heard or read of an orgy that did not sound on the crowded side.
Alastair Forbes
1837 Château-d'Oex, Switzerland
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