Notes & Asides

Dear Mr. Buckley:

Who was pulling whose leg? JMcF [“Notes and Asides,” July 28] cited a sentence from Evelyn Waugh’s letter to the Archbishop of Westminster—”In the provinces [things] are tohu bohu (if you will forgive a quotation from a language otherwise unknown to me) . . .”—as “the funniest line Waugh ever wrote . . . an invented couple of words from a language not known, unidentified, and certainly not used within reach of London.”