Sir, – The late esteemed educator James J Carey would assuredly have expressed displeasure that the classroom profile of Socrates (Education, November 19th), offers students the off-key pronunciation “Sock-rah-tays”. In his scholarly and refined way he drew deviant O’Connell Schools’ pupils to the proper style in a short rhyming verse that ended “. . . and all of these”. So for next print-off, just as in Herculees, it’s Socratees, if you please. – Yours, etc,
OWEN MORTON,
Station Road,
Sutton, Dublin 13.
