A chara, - As one who has long been disgusted by the illiterate and disgraceful spelling of common words "as Gaeilge", I was not surprised at Mr M. D. Kennedy's letter re Iarnrod. It is a pity that more of us do not take a leaf out of his book. What are all the Irish language movements doing about such slip-shod degrading of our national language?
Here in Wexford we have the name of the town spelled incorrectly in Irish as "Loch Gorman" on the signs at the railway station. A few miles out of town we have a Heritage Park (well worth a visit) and sadly at least one of the signs pointing to it has the Irish word for "heritage" misspelled as "oihdreacht". Apparently, the "ah, sure, it's only Irish" mentality is widespread'
Where is our pride in ourselves? The way things are going with often ludicrous names given to new housing estates we are rapidly becoming an imitator and an inferior little England called Ireland. - Is mise,
Seamus Mac Suain, Loch Garman.