Your Letters
16:21 UK time, Thursday, 1 March 2007
At last, a real all-noun headline: "Barrymore home death probe review".
Steven, Cambridge
"My God, it's Fidel" was your . But is Hugo sure it wasn't Rory Bremner?
PJ, West Yorks
So JJ Abrams is to direct the new Star Trek movie. I can only assume that it's going to be called "Lost in Space".
Chris Stocks, Chesham, Bucks
I feel I must just point out that, to be true pedantry, it has to be done after the best time to stop. Your note yesterday (from the Monitor asking for an end to the discussion) is therefore just like a bright coloured lure waved in the vision of a large horned bovine with the intent of instigating an aggressive response.
Ray Lashley, Bristol, UK
Re: maul v mall - isn't Pall Mall correctly pronounced "pell-mell"?
Brian, Derby
Re: whether "mall" should rhyme with "ball" or "pal". Every four-letter word ending in -all is pronounced like the so-called American pronunciation of "mall", eg call, fall, hall and tall. Methinks it's The Mall and Pall Mall in London which are the odd ones out...
Ken, Hornchurch
I hate to miss out on a good round of pedantry so can I be the first to point out that George Orwell's book (Thursday's ) is in fact called Nineteen Eighty Four, rather than 1984.
Al, Worcester
Is this what the Monitor readership is reduced to? Pedantry? Grammar and spelling corrections? Come on folks, you can do better (awaits pedantic grammar correction of this letter).
Eric, Seattle
I should like to remind Magazine readers that whilst "old" things are usually and eventually old, New College, Oxford dates from 1379.
Lucy Jones, Manchester
Hmm, sorry, Phil from London, but I don't think you have stumbled upon the Monitor's regional origins in he/she using the term 'leccy bills' (Wednesday letters). I am from Yorkshire originally and we certainly use it there. Anywhere else, anybody?
Sue, Solihull
Paper Monitor is clearly a gay man. The obsession with soaps only reinforces it. Yesterday Paper Monitor revealed that he hung around with men who were obsessed with how much chest hair and muscles the Radcliffe boy has. For the record I have more than Radcliffe of both.
Basil Long, Newark, Notts
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