Mind your manners

ON THE subject of good manners (letters), my mother always used to say ‘you can but you may not’ when one of her children used the word ‘can’ inappropriately.

ROSEMARY BARRY,

Potters Bar, Herts. WHEN I lived in Germany almost 50 years ago, elderly people greeting you would not only shake your hand but bow as well. I felt most regal.

DAVID H. COX, Oxford.