I totally agree with Sid Murphy from Yeovil (You Say, May 14)).
Calling cygnets ‘baby swans’ on road signs is absolutely pathetic.
No one calls puppies ‘baby dogs’ or calves ‘baby cows’!
Why not teach children the correct word for a ‘baby swan’?
It has only occurred in the last few years that the signs have changed to say this.
If the Swannery feels that the general public is too unintelligent to know what a cygnet is, which is insulting to most of us - perhaps the least they could do is say cygnet (baby swan) for the hard of thinking.
H McLaughlin, address supplied.
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