20 JULY 1996, Page 25

Pronunciation to a t

Sir: Alan Watkins tells us Philip Hope-Wal- lace pronounced the t in Montrachet. But was he right to do so? There may be a mas- culine substantive trachet in the patois, so as to give mon trachet, but it's much more likely that there's a local hill known as Mont Rachet. The locals would know all these things. Perhaps we should ask them. (One thing's for sure: they wouldn't put a circumflex accent over the o in Crozes.) J.L.A. Hartley

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