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You know, I'm pretty certain that is exactly what satisfactory means. Perhaps Sir Alan (no relation?) needs to take an English class or two?
Dan, Cambridge
Tyler from Oxford (Tuesday letters): sorry to spoil it but "reject" is the verb there... The ´óÏó´«Ã½, august organisation that it is, doesn't go in for verb-less headlines like the Sun or the Daily Mail very much. A Sun headline such as "Vicar in bed shame saga" would no doubt be rendered as "Local vicar discovered in 'shaming bed tryst'"...
Mark, Reading, UK
is rather confusing - does the word Amazonian refer to the where the ants live or their lifestyle or both?
Ray, Turku, Finland
"". Oh, very good.
Rick P, Oxford, UK
?: "It very quickly dawned on me that they were actually a bunch of massive chavs."
Adrian, Sheffield, UK
To Ian, Redditch (Tuesday letters): The US President is referred to as Leader of the Free World in the same way as the US v Canada knockabout is called the World Series.
Violet, Leicester