31 MAY 2008, Page 24

What’s funny?

Sir: I suppose it’s just about possible to conceive of a name for a child more pretentious than Aeneas, the name Matthew Dennison gave his child (‘What’s in a name?’, 17 May), but I’m not sure what it might be. Good luck Aeneas Dennison, I say; maybe he’ll learn to quote from Virgil as the blows come raining down in the playground.

My oldest son, meanwhile, is called Tyler — after Wat Tyler. I suppose, in Dennison’s view, he was probably the original chav. But Tyler’s proud of the association and the worst he has to put up with is his brother saying ‘What, Tyler?’ and then laughing a lot.

Rod Liddle

Marlborough, Wiltshire