Your Letters
16:06 UK time, Monday, 6 April 2009
Re : More worthy of awe for me is the fact that Florida has a Department of Citrus. Now that is news to me.
Aine, Croydon
I see that scientists have explained how scratching can stop an . Can they also explain how reading that article started me itching in several places?
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, England
Hmm, an odd "human interest" story about a local football game makes the national news.
Call me cynical if you will but the does make one wonder...
Chris Gallagher, Nottingham
A colleague of mine has pointed out that the ´óÏó´«Ã½, when referring to the earthquake, gives the magnitude of the quake, but does not say that this is against the Richter Scale. Is there any particular reason for this?
Basil Long, Nottingham
Dear Simon P of London (Friday letters) how can "Obama arm on Ma'am drama" be a fine example of the headline art form when it doesn't rhyme? Even I, living north of Watford, know that "Ma'am" rhymes with "jam" not "arm". I'll get my ermine cloak...
J Paul Murdock, Wall Heath, UK
Nominative perversity, I like it. Can I suggest Donald Pleasance, who played Blofeld and other unpleasant, quietly sinister characters. It was his real name, not a brilliantly ironic stage name.
Anne, Chester
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