Sir, - Seamas de Barra (October 9th) would have you believe that Ben Yehuda and other "Zionist linguistic zealots" created a new Hebrew language. In that case, isn't it a very queer thing that Israeli schoolchildren can easily read the Isaiah scroll in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, written two millennia ago? - Yours, etc., David Sowby,
Knocksinna Crescent,
Dublin 18.