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Re . Personally I have been blaming the boogie.
Mat, Sheffield

Does anybody know a phrase for that slightly embarrassed, slightly annoyed feeling you get when you read a letter sent in by someone who has either pedantically or obtusely ignored the irony in the epistle of a recent correspondent (Tuesday letters)?
Kat Murphy, Coventry

Do you take a mischievous pleasure in publishing the letters which demonstrate (a) flawed logic, (b) misplaced pedantry, and (c) irony bypasses?
Legs, Huntingdon

What is the opposite to nominative determinism? I mean, what would the expression be for someone whose name doesn't match the job they do? Like the less-than-cute Nazi Klaus Barbie.
Rob, Reading

One thing I still cannot get my head around regarding the , is why it is needed - I appreciate that the leaders need to decide a global approach, but when we are all in a recession, why spend money flying to a country, make that country (us!) spend money on security etc., when in today's modern world surely such a conference could be done by video conferencing?
Lucy P, Ashford, Kent

Strangely, in Czech, Worcestershire Sauce (Tuesday letters) is pronounced WAR-CHEST-R, where the R is rolled. I have eternal arguments with my English students over that one. As I do with Edinburgh, where they pronounce it exactly as it's written. Czech is a phonemic language (say what you see).
Dick Savage, Plzen, Czech Republic

Maggie (Tuesday letters), don't worry about learning the Latin phrase, there's no need in the present age. So, don't put any stress on the "bum", put it firmly on the "tits".
Ben Merritt, Sheffield, England

Rob (Wednesday letters) and Timothy (Tuesday letters) - sorry, those don't count as all-noun headlines. "Apes" and "eye" are being used as verbs.
Chris H, Enfield

OK I'd like to add as the list. History has shown that Simpsons stories released on this day do tend to be true...
Sarah, Colchester

The aren't combined into the one activity, are they?
Nigel Macarthur, London, England

Re Paper Monitor, is the joke not ultimately on the Guardian whose anagram for "April Fool" is a letter short?
Morwenna Hancock, North Sydney

Fail poor, fair polo, folio rap, fool pair, liar poof? I give up.
Rick P, Oxford, UK

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