Remembering the grandeur that was Cromer

SIR – Kennedy’s (Letters, December 31) was not the only textbook whose title was amended by imaginative readers.

Generations of pupils at my school altered Kathleen Gadd’s From Ur to Rome to become From Bury to Cromer – a sort of gazetteer for East Anglia. Richard Dade

Peterborough

SIR – Our primer, when I was nine, was Latin with Laughter, which was soon adjusted to Eating with Slaughter.

Rev Canon Timothy Watson Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

SIR – Our Latin primers were Mentor and Civis Romanus, which became Tormentor and, in those happy Fifties days, Elvis Romanus. Michael Round

London SW19 SIR – Geography was enlivened by The Comparative Atlas becoming Ethel, a Comparatively Fat Lass.

Jane Byrne

Stone, Staffordshire

SIR – All I retain after 50 years is repeating at increasing speed the imperatives: dic, duc, fac, fer to the rhythm of a train picking up speed on leaving Victoria. It was enough, it seems, to guarantee me a place at Cambridge. Jeremy Burton

Wokingham, Berkshire

SIR – My grandmother was mortally offended when my mother came home from school with a textbook entitled Latin for the Lower Middle Class. Judy Sutherland

Altrincham, Cheshire