Your Letters
15:49 UK time, Friday, 2 March 2007
So Ross Leckie says that the way to bluff people is to repeat a clear message with conviction and make connections to bigger issues. Er - isn't that how we ended up in Iraq?
John R, London
Re: . I note that when asked if he had much demand for it, an undertaker replied "I only ever had one customer who wanted a quote for the 'total green package' and she never came back." Let's hope that wasn't due to you know what.
Lee Pike, Cardiff, UK
Isn't today's news "" somewhat hypocritical? After all, Charlotte Church is hardly blameless in this area. Mind you I was pleased to see the headline (since amended) "". Which church is this and when is the new chapel due? Please end this headline confusion now!!!
Paul, London
Rosie (letters 27 February), we may not pronounce baguette or ciabatta in an "anglicised" manner, however the English language is full of foreign words which have been given a distinctive English pronunciation, for example chance, centre, amiable, all French but certainly all with a very different pronunciation in French.
Robert, Cologne, Germany
I just scored 7/7 on the , then 1/7 on the , and that was a lucky guess. What does this say about me? Other than the fact that I have too much time on my hands?
Carol, Portugal
This week's , asks me to complete the sentence `´óÏó´«Ã½ ordered to hand over BLANK tapes.' What's to complete?
David Richerby, Athens, Greece
To out-pedant Al (letters 1 March), the title is actually Nineteen Eighty-Four (there's an all-important hyphen in there).
Jo, N. Ireland
Maul vs Mall? (letters 1 March), I think Maul vs Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi was far more entertaining.
Dave Godfrey, Swindon, UK
Sorry Ray Lashley (letters 1 March), but I feel I must be pedantic and point out that cows are colour blind. It is merely the movement the causes the animal interest.
Pete C, Birmingham
And surely "leccy bills" comes from London when the good old London Electricity Company (LEC) ruled the waves...
Martin Payne, London
"The ´óÏó´«Ã½ hopes that the deal will help it reach YouTube's monthly audience of more than 70 million users and drive extra traffic to its own website." () But what if they all want to do Punorama or the Caption Competition?
Kip, Norwich, UK
Re. When new is old (letters 28 Feb), the New Forest dates from 1079.
Stephen Turner, Cambridge
In addition to Phil B-C's comment re. Monitor's gender, Monitor said "Down the local". This (irritating) idiosyncrasy is peculiar to scousers and surrounding areas. I will also bet it's male.
Christian, Wakefield, UK
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