Your Letters
18:10 UK time, Tuesday, 28 October 2008
In response to the and whether it's OK to hate it, I would like to point out that there HAVE been British villians. Alec Trevelyan and Miranda Frost are both British, Goldfinger is a British citizen, "Red" Grant is from Northern Ireland and Scaramanga is half-English.
Mark Doughty, Portsmouth
Unfortunately Carol Ironson (Your Letters, Monday), as Tom Leppard changed his name from Woodbridge, his is an example of an aptronym that is not of the nominative determinism type. So your spot was really more of a cheetah.
TS, Bromley, England
Is it just me, or ?
Simon, Emsworth
How amusing. The review of the teaching of sex education took nine months to produce results.
MCK, Coventry
In , Kevin Connolly writes: "But if John McCain wins it from here it seems to me that he should be compared to Lazarus not just Thomas Dewey." As it was Harry Truman that came from behind to defeat Thomas Dewey, surely Kevin should have said it will be Truman he'll be compared to.
PS, Newcastle, England
Dear Monitor, Pedantry alert! The headline, doesn't make sense. Pure means "unmodified by an admixture". Something is either pure or it isn't. Perhaps the writer was on something at the time the headline was written? Kind regards,
Daniel Hayes, St Albans, UK
Your piece on the iTunes automatic profanity censor is nothing new. I had a similar problem a few years back when on a forum to interest kids in poetry, we discussed The Owl and the P***y Cat. Kids seemed puzzled why the P***y, so it possibly had a reverse effect invoking curiosity.
Philip G Bell, Redbourn UK
reminded me of the album.
Neil, Manchester, UK
Re , "The project is known as ICECAP - Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate." Wonder how long the scientists had to work before they could get words to fit the acronym?
Paul Greggor, London
I heard a news story on the radio this morning about the International Money Tree Fund. Wouldn't the obvious solution to the financial crisis be for them to take a few cuttings and grow more such trees?
Adam, London, UK
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