Preserved Gaelic
Gaelic certainly does not deserve to be mocked or maligned (Letters, 9 November).
It is a language which deserves the solemn respect accorded to a great work of art, such as a Damien Hirst installation in which a strangely unnatural static carcass hangs suspended for perpetuity in a guarded and tightly sealed tank of formaldehyde, its spectral power to beguile and bewilder matched only by its exorbitant expense.
Joanna Cassidy Campbell
Chambers Street
Edinburgh