Letter: Who loses face over pace

Sir: Don't look now but pace has just blown up in Thomas Sutcliffe's face. ('You open your mouth and a bomb goes off', 15 July). Like most people he seems to assume that it's Italian and should be pronounced 'pah- chay'. It isn't and shouldn't. Pace is the ablative of the Latin pax and the gentleman he gently mocks for pronouncing the word 'paysee' is one of the few people I know who gets it right.

Yours faithfully,

CLIVE EXTON

London, N1

15 July