Sir, - Whatever has happened to the pedants? Your front-page story of May 11th outlining the plight of the starving seals in the White Sea notes that they normally grow fat in the Barents on "plentiful supplies of fish and crustations". Crustations?
Better starvation, I suppose, than being eaten by a passing cetation! - Yours, etc.,
Eamon Sweeney, South Hill, Dartry, Dublin 6.