'WTF' in the IT?

Sir, – May I spare you the trouble of explaining to your readers the meaning of the term WTF (Brian Flanagan, December 17th)? …

Sir, – May I spare you the trouble of explaining to your readers the meaning of the term WTF (Brian Flanagan, December 17th)? As all my children know, it is, of course, an acronym of the question, “what the flip?” – Yours, etc,

R McDERMOTT,

Victoria Road,

Rathgar, Dublin 6.

Sir, – Brian Flanagan (December 17th) asks what Fintan O’Toole and Frank McDonald mean by the term WTF. Surely it’s an abbreviation of the German expression “Wahrhaftig tippt Fintan” (“Fintan types truthfully”)? – Yours, etc,

JOHN O’BYRNE,

Mount Argus Court,

Harold’s Cross,

Dublin 6W.