Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett mentions Marlborough College in her article about classism and private schools (To state school alumni starting university, I say this: be proud of your background, 5 October). I spent the first 24 years of my life in Marlborough Road, Gillingham, Kent. Only many years later, when I dealt with people educated at Marlborough College, did I realise that I had been saying it wrongly all my life. Apparently, to those in the know, it’s pronounced “Mawlborough”.
Martin Pilgrim
Canterbury, Kent
• Almost half of the students surveyed named procrastination as damaging their ability to work (University students say procrastination is biggest threat to their academic performance, 8 October). Did the others put off making a choice until later, then?
David Duell
Durham
