Sir, - Many Irish people now "go to the bathroom", American style, with no notion of taking a bath, and now we have started "passing away", American style, too, instead of just "dying" as we have done since time immemorial.
Whence the reluctance to call a spade a spade? I am, thankfully, very much alive at the moment, but when my number is finally called, please let it be said that I am "dead"! - Yours, etc.,
BLÁNAID D. WHITE,
Nobber,
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Co Meath.