12 NOVEMBER 1954, Page 14

NOSTALGIA

COCK I .—Jack Bctjeman is on cockeyed about nostalgia bein a kinder catarrh. Ve of Uggins it is mob, reckernising the true cockney origin of this vord, uv used it for years. We give it to the world (though not to Scotland where the lallans boys live their own term-6 hamegirnan) an the world as misused it sunnick shockin2. Nostalgia, Cocki, is wot you Ill up the back of yen frote an nose artcr drinkin tizzy ginger pop.—T.T.F.N.3 0 bil4

SID POSFIBLOKE JONES

1 Cock, Sir; 2 sunniCk shockin, cruelly; 3 T.T.F.N„ Yours faithfully/ 4 Obn, Holborn.