Sir, - Permit me to broaden further Mr D K Henderson's already vast reservoir of general knowledge by informing him that my dictionary says Mr Edward Lear is credited with inventing the word "runcible", as a nonsense word in a nonsense poem. It is applied (jokingly) to sharp-edged pickle forks (also called cake-forks by those without dictionaries). - Yours, etc.,
Ballinteer, Dublin 16.