Meal issue (From Penarth Times)

Meal issue

I SAW the letter from Helen and Trevis Woodward in the Penarth Times (February 2).

Obviously, some people will disagree with the views I expressed in the previous week"s issue about the proper use of language, and they are clearly entitled to do so.

In this instance, the matter concerned a local restaurant in the Penarth area, which I did not even name in the letter.

It therefore seems odd that your two correspondents should have been able to identify the "anonymous" establishment I referred to so very confidently.

I may have been attempting "to score points" in a general sense in my letter, but not to the extent of embarrassing the restaurant staff concerned by naming their place of employment.

Meanwhile I remain of the view that the term "guys" is inappropriate, especially when addressed to individuals of pensionable age.

Am I not to be permitted to express a general view of this sort, while preserving discretion, publicly, as to the location of the establishment?

Nor did I give any indication whatsoever in my letter as published that I was dissatisfied with the meal that we had.

Michael O"Neill

Railway Terrace

Penarth