Madam, - Edwin Kelly writes from South Korea in what seems to be a variant of Linear B (May 1st). In a rather free translation from his original, he appears to put the following question: what's so great about vowels anyway? Vowels can be extremely useful - in their place. Unfortunately, however, many speakers, particularly on radio programmes, sound as if they've never learnt to use consonants. They burble away in a series of grunted vowels that convey no comprehensible meaning - yeo woh Ah mee? - Yours, etc,
DAVID SOWBY, Knocksinna Crescent, Dublin 18.