25 JANUARY 1946, Page 16

THE MEANING OF CHOLLY

SIR,—Miss Rose Macaulay asks what " Cholly " was short for, if anything. The answer is "Charles," of course. I well remember when I was a small boy in the Eighteen Nineties a dear old lady, who prided herself on her nice pronunciation and spoke of my sisters as "little gyirls," always addressed as " Cholly " a friend of mine whom most of us called

Benson Vicarage, Oxford.