26 JULY 2008, Page 24

An intrusive ‘g’

Sir: Toby Young (Status Anxiety, July 12) tells us that ‘Joseph Epstein, a retired academic’ coined the word ‘Kindergarchy’. The pedant academic in me considers that the intrusive ‘g’ should be removed though the resulting ‘kinderarchy’ is perhaps not as euphonious.

I trust that the oligarchy of Taki the Greek and Dot Wordsworth would agree with me. David Heath

Westcliff on Sea, Essex