SIR – When Councillor Lynne Smith complains of council officials using inappropriate jargon (T&A, January 11), she would usually expect general applause. But then she goes on to ask “whether the man on the 96 bus will actually be able to make sense of it”.

I’m not sure that any man or woman on a 96 bus would be in the least interested in any utterances of Bradford’s council officials, as the nearest route I can find with that number only operates between Barnsley and Wakefield, entirely omitting the environs of Bradford, thus proving Councillor Smith guilty of applying quite inappropriate jargon herself.

Nothing like a bit of self-inflicted foot-shooting, is there?

Graham Hoyle, Kirkbourne Grove, Baildon