SIR - I sometimes despair of my fellow Bradfordians. Your correspondent B Barraclough (Letters, December 13) seems to be proud of the fact that he or she would never use certain words such as campylobacter, ossified and nepotism et al (all of which appear in my dictionary) as he or she was never taught such words.

We acquire words as we progress through life by reading or listening, and if we do not understand them we look them up in a dictionary.

To state that no Yorkshire folk would use such words is presumptuous and an insult to those of us who do use and understand them.

Perhaps my old school, St Bede’s, did a better job of education.

JM Millbank, Allerton Road, Bradford