Dear Sir:      Re Canon Pulford’s timely letter concerning ‘youing’ God . Having being brought up to pray Biblically and as one trained in linguistics, I look upon the modern arbitrary trend in English-speaking countries with great disdain. My past employment brought me into contact with some dozen languages other than English, none of which show such lack of taste in addressing God.      Words usually become redundant according to three processes. The first is when two words are synonymous and one is gradually preferred to the other. Thus, in English, we have ‘welkin’ and ‘clouds’ to describe the same phenomenon and now merely use ‘clouds’. The second linguistic ‘law’ is when a word with many meanings… Full Article

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